Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to legislate to disapply the Human Rights Act 1998 in deportation cases.

We set out in our Immigration White Paper our intention to bring forward legislation to allow us to more easily remove foreign national offenders.

Later this year we will set out more detailed reforms and stronger measures to ensure our laws are upheld, including streamlining and speeding up the removals process. That will include establishing new procedures so that the Home Office can more easily take enforcement and removal action and revoke visas in a much wider range of crimes where noncustodial sentences have been given, not just cases which are sent to prison.

The Government is fully committed to complying with international law and the protection of human rights. Work is underway on reviewing the application of Article 3 and Article 8 in immigration cases.