Home Department written question – answered at on 7 December 2005.
John Hayes
Shadow Minister (Transport)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to the answer of 21 November 2005, Official Report, column 1748W, on EU travel bans, what mechanisms exist for (a) the Immigration and Nationality Directorate and (b) his Department to monitor compliance with travel bans.
Tony McNulty
Minister of State (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality), Home Office
The Immigration and Nationality Directorate and the Sanctions Unit of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office liaise closely to ensure that the UK complies with its international obligations in respect of travel bans. Details of all those subject to EU, and UN, travel bans are placed on appropriate databases.
These databases are updated regularly and are available to UK immigration officials responsible for ensuring that those excluded individuals are refused leave to enter or remain in the UK. Section 8B(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 ensures that any leave to enter or remain in the UK is cancelled on becoming an excluded person.
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