Written evidence to be reported to the House
UK Borders Bill
11:18 am
Damian Green (Shadow Minister (Immigration), Home Affairs; Ashford, Conservative)
I am sure that people in Scotland and in the rest of Britain will find that answer amazingly complacent. If these powers are necessary to protect ports in England and Wales, they are necessary to protect them in Scotland. Unless the Minister is proposing to rebuild Hadrian’s wall, if the Scottish ports and airports are unsafe—as presumably he must regard them as being, if his legislation is not being passed in Scotland—the whole country is unsafe. I remind him that his party is the leading party in the Scottish Executive. What have they told him as to why it is unnecessary there? If, as I understand from newspaper reports, they are saying that there are more police at Scottish ports than at English ports and airports, what is he doing to remedy the situation in England and Wales?