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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

Can we just go back, because it is quite an important point? If people who evade border controls and appear in the country are asked about what sort of papers they have but they do not have any,  at present there are no powers to oblige them or that the police have to insist that they produce any. How would you, then, practically deal with somebody? Would you require them, as with showing their driver’s licence, to come back at a later date, in which case you have the problem of them hopping off and disappearing and you not seeing them again? Or would you have an ability to take them to premises? How would you practically deal with them?