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Immigration Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Hamwee (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 6 May 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Immigration Bill.

My Lords, my noble and learned friend responded extremely speedily to my bank holiday inquiry, and I am grateful to him for that. The points about whether consent should be required for the tribunal to consider a new matter have been covered quite thoroughly, but I would like to mention the question of guidance. I was curious that this is guidance, because it must be guidance by the Home Office, and therefore the Home Secretary, to the Home Secretary. I would have understood had it been called a code of practice. The title does not really matter: it is the content. I wonder whether there is any distinction between the two.

Having seen the letter to the noble Baroness of 29 April, it seems to me that the way the guidance is described comes quite close to the exercise of discretion. I am aware that I have not put a question mark at the end of any of that, but I felt that I wanted to make those points.

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Reference

753 c1407 

Session

2013-14

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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