The explanation is very simple, although I am not sure whether the Committee will like it. Paragraph (f) simply preserves the Secretary of State’s common law power to share information. That power already exists. This simply seeks to re-establish the status quo, as it were.
UK Borders Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Bassam of Brighton
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 5 July 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on UK Borders Bill.
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