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

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Photo of Sally Keeble Sally Keeble Labour, Northampton North 5:30, 16 October 2007

But there is no requirement on people in the UK to have passports and at present we do not have ID documents. People who evade border controls certainly do not have any papers usually, so how practically do you enforce it? The next part is: what is the sanction? I agree you do not want police stations full of people who have been picked up for not having passports.