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UK Borders Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 29 October 2007, in the House of Commons.
UK Borders Bill. Programme motion (No 2) for proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments and subsequent stages. Agreed to on question. Lords amendments considered. Lords Amendments 1 to 18 agreed to. Commons Amendment to Lords Amendment 19 disagreed to on division (182 to 268). Lords Amendment 19 agreed to.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

465 c533-58 

Session

2006-07

Department

Home Office

Legislative stage

Lords amendments

Procedure

Programme motions
New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

UK Borders Bill. Lords amendments. Explanatory Notes Bill 168-EN also published.
Tuesday, 23 October 2007
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Liam Byrne | 465 c552-3 (Link to this contribution) The Government agree with Lords amendment No. 19, but resist amendments (a) and (b) for reasons that...
Damian Green | 465 c546-8 (Link to this contribution) We have some difficulties with amendment No. 19, which their lordships have proposed. That is why my...

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David Heath | 465 c549-50 (Link to this contribution) I welcome Lords amendment No. 19. I am glad that Ministers were eventually persuaded by what was a s...
Oliver Heald | 465 c550 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is important for there to be consultation with the children's ...
Stewart Hosie | 465 c548-9 (Link to this contribution) I have a lot of sympathy with the points being made and I understand the requirement to record breac...
Damian Green | 465 c549 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's qualified support. The reason for choosing the OCC in the rel...
David Heath | 465 c551 (Link to this contribution) That is precisely why I was looking forward to an assertion from the Dispatch Box by the Minister, s...
John Redwood | 465 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) on pressing this issue with hon....
David Heath | 465 c551 (Link to this contribution) I want to hear the assertion that such consultation has already happened. I want the Minister to say...
Damian Green | 465 c551 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that my meetings with children's organisations over the past week sugges...
Oliver Heald | 465 c553 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister's code of conduct is only one to which the agency shall ““have regard”” rather than ...
Liam Byrne | 465 c553 (Link to this contribution) I shall deal with amendment (a) and the protections, which are important, in a moment.
Liam Byrne | 465 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a keen eye for some of the practicalities of the debate; he will be delighted...
Damian Green | 465 c554-5 (Link to this contribution) May I express my gratitude to the Minister for the steps forward that he has taken? He has made genu...
Speaker | 465 c555 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.
David Heath | 465 c543 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to add a great deal to the comments that I made in my interventions. It would be churl...
Damian Green | 465 c542-3 (Link to this contribution) I will leave the Minister to deal with my hon. Friend, who makes his point with characteristic clari...
David TC Davies | 465 c542 (Link to this contribution) While we are still on anecdotes, has my hon. Friend noticed the sort of thing that I have experience...
Liam Byrne | 465 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) We are still outside the Schengen agreement, and while it remains difficult to see how effective pol...
Damian Green | 465 c542 (Link to this contribution) While we are all telling anecdotes about border services, I would like to add that the last time I f...
Liam Byrne | 465 c541 (Link to this contribution) I suppose that the fault to which I am confessing is that I am not perfectly clear sighted about wha...
Jim Cunningham | 465 c541 (Link to this contribution) I was not on the Committee that dealt with the Bill, but where are we in relation to the Schengen pr...
Liam Byrne | 465 c541 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point. I am happy to give the hon. Gentleman that comfort. We were merely consc...
David Heath | 465 c541 (Link to this contribution) Although I accept that this is a fast-moving area, the provisions must be related to an offence. If ...
Stewart Hosie | 465 c541 (Link to this contribution) I broadly agree with the Minister. The previous drafting basically allowed the Home Secretary to do ...
Speaker | 465 c546 (Link to this contribution) With this, it will be convenient to discuss amendment (b) to the Lords amendment, in line 25, at end...
Speaker | 465 c545 (Link to this contribution) With this, it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendment No. 18.
Liam Byrne | 465 c545 (Link to this contribution) These are technical amendments, for which I am grateful to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Refor...
Liam Byrne | 465 c546 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Liam Byrne | 465 c543-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to put the mind of the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green) at rest. I am not sure w...
Stewart Hosie | 465 c544 (Link to this contribution) We have already debated the question of access from a remote site to check the central database, onc...
Liam Byrne | 465 c544-5 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker, I know that you will be careful not to let me go back over the strategic action plan, w...
Liam Byrne | 465 c545 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Liam Byrne | 465 c537-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, that this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment. In Committee, we had a ...
Damian Green | 465 c537 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Minister's kind remarks. I was not quite clear from what he said whether the p...
Liam Byrne | 465 c537 (Link to this contribution) That is the intention, yes. I commend the amendments to the House. Lords amendment agreed to. Lord...
Liam Byrne | 465 c538 (Link to this contribution) I spend a good deal of my week visiting our ports and airports—I hope to go to Portsmouth tomorrow, ...
Liam Byrne | 465 c536-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for those observations and for the opportunity to clarify one or two points. The relat...
David Heath | 465 c536 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman—he at least is consistent even if all around him inconsistency r...
Damian Green | 465 c535 (Link to this contribution) Indeed; I should put on record once again the fact that even when my party was misguidedly in favour...
David Heath | 465 c535 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is about to tell me that he voted against ID cards.
Liam Byrne | 465 c540 (Link to this contribution) I consider every couple of weeks the arrangements between BAA, the Border and Immigration Agency and...
Liam Byrne | 465 c540 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Speaker | 465 c540 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 9 to 15.
Liam Byrne | 465 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) There are two packages of amendments in this group: Nos. 8 and 14 and Nos. 9 to 15, excluding No. 14...
Liam Byrne | 465 c538 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his remarks. I will re-examine those notices, most of which wer...
Lord Deben | 465 c538 (Link to this contribution) The courtesy of the staff is unfailing; the notices are much more discourteous than they were—they a...
Damian Green | 465 c538-9 (Link to this contribution) Again, I have no objections in principle to the amendment, but I seek clarification from the Ministe...
David Heath | 465 c539-40 (Link to this contribution) That is a real dilemma. The experiences are still variable; despite my possible future best interest...
Lord Deben | 465 c539 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the courtesy of the people at the desks has also improved? The on...
Damian Green | 465 c534-5 (Link to this contribution) Broadly speaking, we welcome the group of amendments. It is always good to hear a Minister in this G...
David Heath | 465 c535 (Link to this contribution) First, it is proper that I should pay tribute to my hon. Friend the Member for Rochdale (Paul Rowen)...
Liam Byrne | 465 c534 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Speaker | 465 c534 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendments Nos. 2 to 6.
Liam Byrne | 465 c534 (Link to this contribution) The amendments can be put into three packages. They are to do with the way in which identity cards a...
Lord Deben | 465 c538 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is distinguished by the courtesy with which he has dealt with these matters. He has men...
David Heath | 465 c539 (Link to this contribution) I shall also raise the issue addressed by the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green). Designation is...
Damian Green | 465 c546 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment (a) to the Lords amendment, in line 10, at end insert—"'(c) record in docume...
David TC Davies | 465 c553 (Link to this contribution) In my dealings with the Minister, he often gives the impression that he shares the widespread concer...
Damian Green | 465 c545 (Link to this contribution) This group—and, indeed, the previous group—provides a welcome step forward in clarification. In resp...

Subjects

Children
Disclosure of information
Data protection
Biometrics
Immigration
Identity cards
Documents
Nationality
Proof of identity
Border and Immigration Agency

Legislation

UK Borders Bill 2006-07

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