Clause 34 - Disclosure to law enforcement agencies
Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill
4:45 pm
Tony McNulty (Minister of State (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality), Home Office; Harrow East, Labour)
It is entirely necessary. Those police forces are established not only under different jurisdictions but under a different statutory base. Specifically in the context of clauses 27 and 28, it is germane, appropriate and necessary to mention them deliberately in the Bill. I accept entirely the hon. Gentleman’s point about our relationship and co-operation with those police forces.
I hope, not via a chorus or a tape recorder, that the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington will take the assurances given about the 1951 conventions—European and United Nations—in the manner given and will withdraw his amendment.