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Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Lords Select Committee

The Justice and Home Affairs Committee was appointed to consider justice and home affairs, including the domestic criminal justice system, and international cooperation in respect of criminal justice, civil justice, migration and asylum.

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Reports, special reports and government responses

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1st Report - Technology rules? The advent of new technologies in the justice system
Inquiry New technologies and the application of the law
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Response to this report
Letter dated 6 July 2022 from Baroness Hamwee, Chair Justice and Home Affairs Committee, to the Rt Hon Priti Patel, Home Secretary regarding the Government's response to the Committee’s recent report, ‘Technology rules? the advent of new technologies in the justice system’
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Correspondence
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Government Response to the Report "Technology rules? The advent of new technologies in the justice system"
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Oral evidence transcripts

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19 July 2022
Inquiry Family Migration
Witnesses Professor Simone Moriconi (Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods at IESEG School of Management), Professor Alan Manning (Professor of Economics at London School of Economics (LSE)), and Professor Christian Dustmann (Professor of Economics, Director of Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London (UCL))
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12 July 2022
Inquiry Family Migration
Witnesses Dr Helen Connolly (Senior Lecturer in Sociology at UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE), Coram Children's Legal Centre, and Reunite Families Uk
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17 May 2022
Inquiry The Life in the UK test
Witnesses Kevin Foster MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Safe and Legal Migration) at Home Office), and Home Office
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Written evidence

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LTN0013 - The Life in the UK test
Witnesses Professor Bridget Byrne (Director of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) at The University of Manchester)
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LTN0012 - The Life in the UK test
Witnesses Dr Amy Clarke (Lecturer in Research Methods at University of Brighton (School of Humanities and Social Science))
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LTN0011 - The Life in the UK test
Witnesses Dr Bronwen Manby (Senior Visiting Fellow, LSE Human Rights, Senior Visiting Fellow, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at London School of Economics & Political Science)
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Other publications

Government Responses
The Government has undertaken to respond to most committee reports within two months, although there are exceptions to this rule.
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Correspondence
Committees exchange letters with government departments and others, often to request information or follow up on recommendations.
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Minutes and decisions
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Declarations of interest
Members of the House of Lords must declare relevant interests in committee work.
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