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Dame Diana Johnson's amendment, Clause 3

Illegal Migration Act 2023

Report stage

Amendment number: 5

Lead member

Dame Diana Johnson
Labour, Kingston upon Hull North
Commons

Decision

Not called
The amendment was debated as part of a group of amendments, but not put to a vote.

Amendment text

Clause 3, page 4, line 8

leave out “at a time when the person is an unaccompanied child” and insert “where the person is an unaccompanied child or is a person who arrived in the United Kingdom as an unaccompanied child”

Member's explanatory statement

This amendment seeks to remove the obligation on the Secretary of State to remove a person where the person has ceased to be an unaccompanied child.

Sponsors

Caroline Lucas
Green Party
Brighton, Pavilion
Sir Stephen Timms
Labour
East Ham