Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

I wish to resist this clause on the grounds that it goes far beyond the Long Title of the Bill. The Title is succinct and makes provision for ““immigration, asylum and nationality”” only. I argue that ships, aircraft and vehicles and their freight arriving at or leaving the United Kingdom are not a connected purpose. I accept, of course, that such means of moving goods may be misused for purposes of terrorism. The remedy for that, however, is for the Government to include their provision in the current Terrorism Bill. This Bill is simply the wrong place for it. I am glad to say that I have the support of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association, which states that the Minister in Committee in another place gave a non-answer on the matter of the Long Title. The association also points out that this clause is almost certainly unnecessary because paragraph 17 of Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000 gave the Secretary of State power to make orders specifying the information that had to be provided. That was done in the Terrorism Act 2000 (Information) Order 2002, which called for information to be given about goods entering the country. I wonder whether any lawyer can detect a difference between goods and freight. I would rather rely on accepted parliamentary convention and on the Long Title than on the strict necessity of this clause. I beg to move.