Siân Berry

Immigration and Asylum Bill (Twelfth sitting)Hansard ↗

I wish to speak briefly against clause 38. Public order disqualification, in the way it has been applied so far, has exacerbated ongoing systemic issues arising from failures in identification and safeguards within the criminal justice system. Available evidence shows that this provision has disproportionately affected individuals subjected to criminal exploitation. As we heard when discussing previous clauses, many survivors of criminal exploitation were forced to commit offences as part of the

Immigration and Asylum Bill (Eleventh sitting)Hansard ↗

I rise to oppose clause 36. I believe that the roots of the plan lie in the previous Prime Minister’s Administration, and the fact that the clause will affect and harm so many victims and survivors of modern slavery in the face of so few actual cases reflects and results from the awfulness of the rhetoric around migration in recent years, on which the Government have joined in. The British Medical Association made that point in its written evidence to the Committee. It said: “We are also concern