Clause 17 - Offence
Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill
4:30 pm
Tony McNulty (Minister of State (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality), Home Office; Harrow East, Labour)
In the interests of brevity: no; five years too excessive; and nasty stuff can be dealt with in other ways. For example, someone got 14 years imprisonment for the facilitation of trafficking in a really nasty case. As the hon. Gentleman suggests, other cases that are nasty, but not as nasty as trafficking and facilitation, are covered by the rest of the law. Two years is not excessive, but appropriate. That is why it appears in the clause.