Clause 31 - Duty to share information
Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill
4:00 pm
John Leech (Manchester, Withington, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move amendment No. 119, in clause 31, page 15, line 43, leave out from ‘voyages’ to end of line 2 on page 16.
Subsection (4)(b) gives the Secretary of State wide-ranging further powers on what is described as “other matters”. The amendment would remove those “other matters” that the Secretary of State may specify. I should be grateful if the Minister indicates what those “other matters” could or would be.
I also seek further clarification. Under the new powers, different agencies would have a duty to share information rather than the power to share information. Given the wide-ranging nature of what “other matters” may be, does the Minister feel that there may be some confusion among the agencies as to what information they have a duty to share?