Debates between Brandon Lewis and Martyn Day during the 2015-2017 Parliament

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Brandon Lewis and Martyn Day
Monday 6th March 2017

(7 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Brandon Lewis Portrait Brandon Lewis
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My hon. Friend makes an important point. Fortunately, very few of us in this House can ever understand or will ever have to go through what the family of Tanis Bhandari had to go through; that was a tragic incident that we all wish would never happen to anybody. My hon. Friend is right that the process around post-sentence supervision has changed following the implementation of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014, but I am always willing, as, I know, are colleagues at the Ministry of Justice—I think my hon. Friend has arranged for the family to meet the Secretary of State for Justice later today—to look at what more we can learn from the experiences of today and the past.

Martyn Day Portrait Martyn Day (Linlithgow and East Falkirk) (SNP)
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6. If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.