Immigration Bill: ILPA Briefing for House of Commons Committee: Government New Clause 17 and Government New Schedule 3 inserting Schedule 6 into the Bill, Availability of Local Authority Support, 16 November 2015

Briefing

Immigration Bill: ILPA Briefing for House of Commons Committee: Government New Clause 17 and Government  New Schedule 3 inserting Schedule 6 into the Bill, Availability of Local Authority Support, 16 November 2015

 Also incudes letter of Clive Peckover, Home Office to the National Asylum Stakeholder Forum about the provisions.

Updated with additional resources:

The Government new clause 17 on the Availability of Local Authority Support was debated in the Committee’s 15th sitting on 10 November 2015.

Amendments addressed are summarised in the list below: 

  • Notices of Amendments as at 13 November 2015

In summary of that sitting, the following new clauses were debated:

  • Availability of local authority support 
  • Extension of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority Remit
  • Additional measures in relation to victims of domestic violence or human trafficking 
  • Residential tenancies: repeal of provisions of the Immigration Act 2014
  • Persons with a right to rent  
  • Eligibility for housing and homelessness assistance 

New schedules

  • Private hire vehicles etc 
  • Duty to supply nationality documents to Secretary of State: persons to whom duty applies Persons to whom section 20A applies 
  • Availability of local authority support 

A link to the full debate is added below.

Document Date
2015-10-16
Issue Number
15.11.31560

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