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Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

The right reverend Prelate has asked a very good question. First, I need to talk to the policy Minister responsible for this. As noble Lords know, and as the right reverend Prelate will remember, I am not a Home Office Minister and this is not my policy area. The legitimacy of my role is that I am entitled to ask questions raised by noble Lords across the House and in Committee. In talking with the organisations that came to meet me, it seemed that the question of how people know what their rights are and how people get the information they need was actually the underlying problem being addressed by the amendment. It is right and proper that as the Bill Minister I look at it. I will talk to the Minister responsible for this aspect of policy, so as to be able to talk further to any other organisations that make representations. I will look again at the evidence noble Lords have raised in Committee and see whether the system is able to deal with the question—it is not up to me to decide whether it is dealt with adequately because I am not the policy Minister who makes the decision. My job will be to come back to your Lordships. Either I will be successful in that or I will not. Ultimately, that will be the proof of whether I have achieved what I want to do.

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Reference

677 c251GC 

Session

2005-06

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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