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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 28 Mar 2017
Criminal Finances Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 09 Mar 2017
Criminal Finances Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 11 Jul 2016
Investigatory Powers Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Jul 2016
National Identity Cards

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 27 Jun 2016
Investigatory Powers Bill

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Written Question
Occupational Pensions: Tax Allowances
Monday 27th June 2016

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many passport applications have been made using the legend of a deceased person in each of the past six years.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

We do not routinely publish this data.


Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 27 Apr 2016
Investigatory Powers Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 14 Apr 2016
High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Bill

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Written Question
Entry Clearances: Married People
Tuesday 24th March 2015

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect to announce the result of their reconsideration of the application of Mrs Kiran to join her husband in the United Kingdom as directed by Judge Ford of the First-Tier Tribunal in Birmingham on 5 January under Appeal Number OA/05588/2014.

Answered by Lord Bates

It is not the policy of the Home Office to comment on the detail of individual applications. However I can confirm that the instructions of the court in this case are being implemented.


Written Question
Entry Clearances: Married People
Monday 23rd March 2015

Asked by: Lord Rooker (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government why the Home Office presenting officer at the appeal of Mrs Kiran in the Birmingham First-Tier Tribunal hearing before Judge Ford on 5 January, Appeal Number OA/05588/2014, was unable to access a copy of the entry clearance officer's bundle; and why those documents had not been served on the Tribunal or the Appellant.

Answered by Lord Bates

The appeal bundle was sent via diplomatic bag by the British High Commission at Islamabad on 16 December 2014; however it was not available to the court in time for the hearing on 5 January 2015. The delay in sending the bundle was due to the need to consider representations from Mrs Kiran, made to the British High Commission, after the initial decision to refuse Mrs Kiran’s application.