The explanation is very simple, although I am not sure whether the Committee will like it. Paragraph (f) simply preserves the Secretary of State’s common law power to share information. That power already exists. This simply seeks to re-establish the status quo, as it were.
UK Borders Bill
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Lord Bassam of Brighton
(Labour)
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