Clause 2 - Entering United Kingdom without passport
Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill
4:15 pm
Ms Annabelle Ewing (Perth, Scottish National Party)
Surely such a suggestion would involve extraterritoriality—a point that the hon. and learned Gentleman made in his opening remarks. I do not see how one could seek through UK legislation to interfere to such an extent with arrangements made at other airports throughout the world. I return to the point that I made when I intervened on the hon. Member for Isle of Wight. If we are going to go down that route, surely, given the nature of international air transport and given the arrangements already in place at EU level that touch at least tangentially on these issues, the UK Government should initially pursue matters further at EU level so that we have a simplified and more efficient system?