Skip to main content

Abbas Radiom Case

Volume 298: debated on Tuesday 22 July 1997

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what procedural changes in respect of appeals concerning right of abode he plans following the European Court ruling in the Abbas Radiom case; and if he will make a statement. [10212]

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission Bill, which is currently before Parliament, would give a right of appeal to European Economic Area nationals in the small number of cases where the Secretary of State has decided that their exclusion, removal or departure from the United Kingdom would be conducive to the public good. There is currently no right of appeal in such cases.