Question follow-through · 1446
Common Travel Area
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill on (a) free movement within the Common Travel Area and (b) the land border.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 23 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 25 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 30 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Visas: Families and Graduates · 30 Jul 2024
- Asylum: Temporary Accommodation · 4 Oct 2024
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- Immigration: Syria · 13 Mar 2025
- Refugees: Ukraine · 13 May 2025
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
23 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill on (a) free movement within the Common Travel Area and (b) the land border.
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Jul 2024
Answer published
The Common Travel Area (CTA) supports the long-standing principle of free movement for British and Irish citizens between the UK, Ireland and the Crown Dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man) and has been recognised in law since the 1920s. In ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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