Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 4 to amendment No. 15:

In paragraph (c)(ii), in the proposed new paragraph (e), to delete "the duty of the applicant to" and substitute "the desirability that the applicant should".

It would be wrong to insert a legally binding duty on the applicant to co-operate with the asylum process. We accept that there is a duty to co-operate, but it is a moral one, not one that should be written into statute. This provision, with others in the section, is over the top.