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RE-ISSUE

 

5

 

House of Commons

 
 

Tuesday 27th February 2007

 

Public Bill Committee Proceedings

 

UK Borders Bill


 

[FIRst and Second Sittings]


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Agreed to on division

 

That—

 

(1)  

the Committee shall (in addition to its first meeting at 10.30 a.m. on Tuesday

 

27th February) meet—

 

(a)  

at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday 27th February;

 

(b)  

at 9.00 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. on Thursday 1st March;

 

(c)  

at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday 6th March;

 

(d)  

at 9.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. on Thursday 8th March;

 

(e)  

at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday 13th March;

 

(f)  

at 9.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. on Thursday 15th March;

 

(g)  

at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday 20th March;

 

(h)  

at 9.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. on Thursday 22nd March;

 

(2)  

the Committee shall hear oral evidence in accordance with the following

 

Table;

 

Date

Time

Witness

 
 

Tuesday 27th February

Until no later than

Home Office

 
  

1.00 p.m.

  
 

Tuesday 27th February

Until no later than

Immigration Law

 
  

5.30 p.m.

Practitioners

 
   

Association

 
 

Tuesday 27th February

Until no later than

Immigration Advisory

 
  

6.30 p.m.

Service

 
 

Thursday 1st March

Until no later than

National Car Parks

 
  

9.40 a.m.

  
 

Thursday 1st March

Until no later than

Trades Union Congress;

 
  

10.25 a.m.

Transport and General

 
   

Workers’ Union

 
 

Thursday 1st March

Until no later than

Professor Ross

 
  

2.30 p.m.

Anderson, Cambridge

 
   

University; Phil Booth,

 
   

National Coordinator,

 
   

NO2ID

 
 

Thursday 1st March

Until no later than

Liberty

 
  

3.30 p.m.

  
 

Thursday 1st March

Until no later than

Additional witnesses to

 
  

5.00 p.m.

be decided by the

 
   

Committee

 

 
 

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, continued

 
 

(3)  

proceedings on consideration of the Bill in Committee shall be taken in the

 

following order: Clauses 1 to 43; Schedule; Clauses 44 to 46; new Clauses;

 

new Schedules; remaining proceedings on the Bill;

 

(4)  

the proceedings shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a

 

conclusion at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday 22nd March.

 

Mr Liam Byrne has given notice of his intention to move a motion in the terms of the

 

Resolution of the Programming Sub-Committee [Standing Order No. 83C].

 

As an amendment to Mr Liam Byrne’s proposed Motion:

 

Paul Rowen

 

Damian Green

 

Mr Crispin Blunt

 

Negatived on division  

 

Line  35,  leave out ‘Additional witnesses to be decided by the Committee’ and

 

insert ‘Refugee Children’s Consortium’.

 


 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

That, subject to the discretion of the Chairman, any written evidence received by the

 

Committee shall be reported to the House for publication.

 

Agreed to

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

That, at this and any subsequent meeting at which oral evidence is to be heard, the

 

Committee shall sit in private until the witnesses are admitted.


 
 

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, continued

 
 

Agreed to

 

The following witnesses gave oral evidence:

 


 

Liam Byrne MP, Minister for Immigration, Nationality and Citizenship, and Joan Ryan MP,

 

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, James Hall, Chief Executive, Identity and

 

Passport Service, Tony Smith, Head of Border Control, and Stuart Hyde, Senior Director,

 

Enforcement, Immigration and Nationality Directorate, and Bob Lauder, Deputy Director for

 

Scotland and Northern Ireland, Serious and Organised Crime Agency Enforcement Directorate.

 

Mr Liam Byrne

 

Agreed to

 

That the Order of the Committee [27th February] be varied as follows—

 

  In the table, line 14, leave out ‘2.30’ and insert ‘3.00’.

 

    

 

    In the table, line 19, leave out ‘3.30’ and insert 5.00’.

 


 

The following witnesses gave oral evidence:

 


 

Steve Symonds, Legal Officer, and Richard Thomas, Barrister, Immigration Law Practitioners’

 

Association.

 


 

Keith Best, Chief Executive, and Nicole Shepherd, Tribunal Review Councillor, Higher Appeals

 

Unit, Immigration Advisory Service.

 

[Adjourned till Thursday 1st March at 9.00 a.m.


 
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