Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:30 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Jan Berry: At the moment, we do not have the power to demand to see a person’s passport, so if we suspect that a person might be on a football banning order and they are making their way to the airport, we have no mechanism to stop them to check that they are the person who is subject to that football banning order. We have the power to demand names and addresses in so many other situations. Particularly when we were leading up to the last football competition—wherever it was and whatever competition it was—on the continent, we had great difficulties in being able to enforce some parts of that, because we did not have the powers.