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Proceeding contribution from Lord West of Spithead (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 25 February 2009. It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL) and Debate on bill on Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL].

Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

I do not know off the top of my head exactly, but I am sure that I am about to get input from the Box; it must be a matter of months. I say that because the reason we want to get this Bill enacted before the Summer Recess is that we will then be able to have the bulk of the people, or large numbers of them—but not all of them—trained by September or October for this. I have just got the figure: it takes 14 weeks to get a Customs officer trained up on immigration aspects; I hope in a minute to get the other figure. I imagine it takes a similar time to train an immigration officer specifically on those Customs aspects. All they have to learn are the border issues, not the much broader Revenue and other matters, to achieve that.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
708 c221-2 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Complaints Disclosure of information Conditions of employment Data protection Databases Codes of practice Crime prevention Asylum Detainees Arrests Cooperation Devolution Body searches Customs officers Customs Cybercrime Citizenship Borders Cross border cooperation Association of Chief Police Officers Finance Evidence ICT Inspections Immigration Undocumented migrants Human trafficking Excise duties Functions Languages Immigration officers Independent Police Complaints Commission Misconduct Private sector Personal records Northern Ireland Police Powers Public appointments Standards Training Smuggling Revenue and Customs Detention centres UK Border Agency Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency
Legislation
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill (HL) 2008-09
Link
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