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UK Borders Bill

Before the noble Lord sits down, I should like briefly to return to the points I was making earlier about technical offences. Will the Government consider issuing guidance to magistrates’ courts and possibly even Crown Courts so that people who come to this country, whether as asylum seekers, migrant workers or whatever, are not given custodial sentences for offences which they may well have committed in ignorance of our law? If they are given custodial sentences, it makes a very bad start to their time in this country and makes it far harder for them to prepare their case, whether for asylum or some other form of permission.