Member

We have already established powers of detention covering the examination, administrative removal and deportation processes, as well as powers to grant immigration bail where the Secretary of State or the court considers it to be the more appropriate action. To maintain the detention and immigration bail powers under the Illegal Migration Act, as the noble Lord wishes, would likely cause confusion when they cannot be effected without the Secretary of State’s duty to remove. There is a conflict there; I hope the noble Lord will look at it and, for the moment, not press those amendments.