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UK Borders Bill

I hope that the Minister will accept new clause 1 and amendments Nos. 34, 35 and 2. We are having this debate about automatic deportation because last year the Home Office failed to review and carry out deportation orders on several criminals in the system. The Home Secretary did not exercise his powers and ended up losing his job. I agree with the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Kidney). In the short time that I have been a Member of Parliament, I have dealt with several cases of women subject to domestic violence in forced marriages. I have written to the Minister about some of those cases and the most frustrating aspect for the women is that their husbands are still around, having served their sentences. Data protection legislation prevents the Minister from giving the women any indication of when their husbands are to be removed. In the past 12 months, I have dealt with four such cases. It is deplorable that women who have been subject to domestic violence should not know how long their husbands will be roaming around or when they will be deported.