UK Borders Bill

We were grateful to the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Scotland, for the letter of 22 June explaining that Amendments Nos. 34A and 36A were tabled following the recommendations of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, as the noble Baroness has just said. The committee is to be congratulated on its vigilance, though regardless of whether it is the Home Secretary or the Lord Chancellor who makes the rules on, "““the circumstances in which evidence is to be treated … as submitted in support of, and at the time of making””" the application, under the points-based system the negative procedure will apply. As I understand it, the amendment makes no substantive difference to the way in which the clause operates—perhaps the Minister can confirm that—and does not address the major flaw in Clause 2, that applicants are to be given no opportunity to correct straightforward errors in their original evidence.