UK Borders Bill
4:30 pm
Kitty Ussher (PPS (Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE, Minister of State), Department of Trade and Industry; Burnley, Labour)
Perhaps we will come back to that. I note your reluctance to give a yes/no answer.
Finally, you have said that you have general concerns about the vagueness of some of the provisions in the legislation. But I have noticed that, on a number of occasions in the last half hour, when asked by Committee members about how immigration officers should react in certain circumstances, you have clearly made the point that it depends on the type of crime and on the situation and it depends on this or that. I put it to you as a logical point that, if some discretion is required, the Bill cannot legislate for each individual circumstance. Therefore, it necessarily has to be vague.