Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]
Public Bill Committees, 18 June 2009
Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield, Conservative)
I welcome Members to the final sitting of this Public Bill Committee, which appears, if I may say so from the Chair, to have run extremely smoothly so far. I congratulate all Members who have ensured that smoothness, not least the Minister for Borders and Immigration, who is dealing with the Bill on his own. Whatever political party is in power, when a Minister sees through a Bill on his own, he should be commended, and I do so from the Chair in an entirely impartial way.
When we broke at 10.25 this morning for Question Time in the House, the hon. Member for Ashford, whose name has been mentioned a number of times on the Floor of the House in its deliberations, was speaking to new clause 2. I ask him to resume his feet and continue doing so.