No; I said that I would not give way again. I believe I have answered all the questions that have been asked.
I believe that this short Bill is a fair Bill. I also believe that there is consensus on it. The debates on it have raised some specific points that I hope we can iron out in Committee if the Bill is passed this evening, and I certainly intend to build on the consensus on it. In answer to the Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz), it is certainly the case that, based on the good work he has done in scrutinising and simplifying the Bill—which ran to, I think, 350 clauses—we will come back and provide the final piece of the jigsaw in terms of the border controls that this country wants. I commend the Bill to the House.
Question put and agreed to.
Bill accordingly read a Second time.
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Phil Woolas
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 2 June 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords].
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