Member

Amendment 208B, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Cameron and Lord Davies, seeks to increase the list of offences for which an SCPO may be imposed to include illegal entry; obtaining entry by deception; and the new offences in this Bill of the supply and handling of articles for use in immigration crimes, to which I have already referred. As I have said, SCPOs are a powerful and flexible tool, and we do not in any way minimise the seriousness of what we are doing here. These orders are made under Part 1 of the Serious Crime Act 2007 and are used by law enforcement partners to manage and disrupt some of the most harmful individuals involved in serious and organised crime, including organised immigration crime. The orders allow agencies to monitor and place restrictions on individuals without a conviction in a way that would not otherwise be possible, as the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, noted.