Witnesses

Lucy Moreton, Corporate Officer, Immigration Services Union

Assistant Chief Constable Owen Weatherill, Strategic Lead, National Police Coordination Centre; Deputy Chief Constable Paul Netherton OBE, Lead for Civil Contingencies, National Police Chiefs’ Council, Deputy Chief Constable, Devon and Cornwall Police

Emma Moore, Chief Operating Officer, UK Border Force; Angela Perfect, COVID-19 Incident Gold Commander, UK Border Force

Chief Superintendent Paul Griffiths, President, Police Superintendents Association of England and Wales; Simon Kempton, Operational Lead, Covid-19, Police Federation of England and Wales

Chief Constable Garry Forsyth, Chief Constable, Bedfordshire Police; Chief Constable Peter Goodman, Chief Constable, Derbyshire Police; Chief Constable John Robins, Chief Constable, West Yorkshire Police; Chief Constable Lisa Winward, Chief Constable, North Yorkshire Police

Dame Vera Baird DBE QC, Victims’ Commissioner, Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales; Nicole Jacobs, Domestic Abuse Commissioner, Domestic Abuse Commissioner for England and Wales; Anne Longfield OBE, Children’s Commissioner, Children’s Commissioner for England

Baljit Banga, Executive Director, Imkaan; Eleanor Butt, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Refuge; Anna Edmundson, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Lucy Hadley, Campaigns and Policy Manager, Women’s Aid

Adrian Berry, Chair, Immigration Law Practioners’ Association; Colin Yeo, Founder at Free Movement

Andy Hewett, Head of Advocacy, Refugee Council; Chai Patel, Legal Policy Director, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants; Bella Sankey, Director, Detention Action

Rt Hon Priti Patel MP, Home Secretary, Home Office; Matthew Rycroft CBE, Permanent Secretary, Home Office; Shona Dunn, Second Permanent Secretary, Home Office

Sarah Burnett, Business Operations Director, Justice and Immigration, Serco; Colin Dobell, Managing Director, Care and Custody, Mitie; Steven Lakey, Managing Director, Clearsprings Ready Homes; John Taylor, Chief Operating Officer, Mears Group

Tim Buley QC, Landmark Chambers; Rory Dunlop QC, 39 Essex Chambers

Caroline Dinenage MP, Minister of State for Digital and Culture, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; Baroness Williams of Trafford, Lords Minister, Home Office

Karen Dee, Chief Executive, Airport Operators Association; Tony Smith CBE, Chair, International Border Management and Technologies Association, Former interim Director General of Border Force; Sarah West, Chief Operations Officer, Port of Dover

Professor Gabriel Scally, Visiting Professor of Public Health, Bristol University; Professor Annelies Wilder-Smith, Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Commander Karen Baxter, Head of Economic Crime, City of London Police; Graeme Biggar CBE, Director General, National Economic Crime Centre

Susie Hargreaves OBE, Chief Executive, Internet Watch Foundation; Robert Jones, Director of Threat Leadership, National Crime Agency

Professor Gabriel Leung, Dean of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong; Sir David Skegg, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and former Vice-Chancellor, University of Otago, New Zealand; Professor James Wilsdon, Vice-Chair, International Network for Government Science Advice; Professor Teo Yik-Ying, Dean, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore