Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her amendments to the Illegal Migration Bill on the number of last-minute claims by people seeking to stay in the UK illegally.

One of the core aims of the Bill is to prevent late and repeated legal challenges to removal. The Bill does this by providing for two kinds of suspensive claims which are factual suspensive claims and serious harm suspensive claims, in addition to making it clear that all other legal challenges to removal, including by way of judicial review, need not suspend removal. Given this approach, courts would be unable to grant interim relief temporarily blocking removal pending a judgment on the substantive judicial review. New clause 22 will make this clear on the face of the Bill.