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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

Currently, the UK has transfer agreements with approximately 100 countries, ranging from Albania, Andorra and Armenia through to Latvia, Korea, Japan, Italy, Tonga, Trinidad, Turkey, Ukraine and Venezuela. In addition, a significant number of countries have ratified the protocol, and we are working to extend that to territories where the prison transfer agreement has been extended. We have recently signed transfer agreements with a number of other countries—such as Jamaica, in August last year—and I want additional transfer agreements to be put in place. At official level, we are continuing to try to do that on a regular basis. I commend the new clauses and amendments to the House. Question put and agreed to. Clause read a Second time, and added to the Bill.