Member

We have discussed the reasons why we seek to repeal large parts of the Illegal Migration Act in amendments that we have already dealt with and will have future discussions about them. To summarise for the purpose of this group, the vast majority of the Act is being repealed, including provisions relating to the duty to remove, which was part of the previous Government’s Rwanda scheme. The Act was never fully implemented and, where it was, in many cases it brought chaos, frankly. Put simply, without the duty to remove, the associated powers of detention and powers to grant immigration bail, which Amendments 112 and 113 seek to retain, would have no effect at all.