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Proceeding contribution from Lord Soames of Fletching (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 14 July 2009. It occurred during Debate on bill on Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords].


Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]

I am very grateful. The Minister is always extremely courteous in giving way. May I ask him a question on a point that he raised before he was intervened on by the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart)? I took the Minister to say that he had some problem with the figures published by the Government's own statistics officers, the ONS. If the House is to get a true picture of the extent of the problem that the Bill is trying to deal with, it is important that it should know what his objections are to the ONS figures. On what points does he disagree with them, and which parts of the Bill are those disagreements likely to affect?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
496 c181 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Children Appeals Courts Asylum Detainees Deportation British nationality Borders Eligibility Immigration controls Immigration Human trafficking Judicial review Gurkhas Northern Ireland Migrant workers Republic of Ireland Detention centres UK Border Agency Highly skilled migrant programme Common travel area
Legislation
Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill (HL) 2008-09
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk