Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 17 Jul 2017
Brexit: UK-EU Movement of People (EUC Report)
"I was merely about to say that if that were the case, our current Queen would be the first non-immigrant monarch since Queen Anne. Under that criteria, Prince Charles would also be an immigrant since his father was born in Greece. Again, one must be careful how we handle immigration …..."Lord Wallace of Saltaire - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Feb 2017
Brexit: Customs and Border Staff
"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the number of additional public employees needed to meet the requirements of Brexit, in particular in customs and border control...."Lord Wallace of Saltaire - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 06 Feb 2017
Brexit: Customs and Border Staff
"My Lords, half of Britain’s trade is currently within the single market, so presumably customs checks and the space needed for them will have to be considerably expanded. Two-thirds of visitors come from the EU and the EEA, so I assume that the long queues that we already have at …..."Lord Wallace of Saltaire - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 23rd January 2017
Asked by:
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many successful applicants for Tier 1 (Investor) visas, between 2008 and 2015 inclusive, have been classified then or since as politically-exposed persons.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford
- Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
I am sorry but the Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested.
Written Question
Monday 23rd January 2017
Asked by:
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many residence permits granted to Tier 1 (Investor) visa applicants have been rescinded since 2008; and on what grounds.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford
- Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
I am sorry but the Home Office does not hold the specific information in the format requested. To obtain it would involve interrogating individual case records, incurring disproportionate cost.
Written Question
Monday 23rd January 2017
Asked by:
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Tier 1 (Investor) visa applications have been rejected since the tightening of conditions for acceptance in 2014–15.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford
- Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
Information on the numbers of grants, refusals, withdrawals and lapsed cases for Tier 1 (Investor) visa applications is published quarterly, latest data in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, July – September 2016’, table vi_01_q (visa data tables volume 1), available from the GOV.UK website and attached to this answer.
Written Question
Monday 23rd January 2017
Asked by:
Lord Wallace of Saltaire (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Tier 1 (Investor) visa applications were rejected between 2008 and 2015.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford
- Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
Information on the numbers of grants, refusals, withdrawals and lapsed cases for Tier 1 (Investor) visa applications is published quarterly, latest data in the Home Office’s ‘Immigration Statistics, July – September 2016’, table vi_01_q (visa data tables volume 1), available from the GOV.UK website and attached to this answer.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 21 Nov 2016
Crime: Illegal Arms
"All these criminal networks smuggling into the country are cross-border and international, and the arms which are sloshing around the African continent and eastern Europe are smuggled by links of criminals across a range of different countries. As we withdraw from the European Union we are in severe risk of …..."Lord Wallace of Saltaire - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 May 2016
Investor Visas: Money Laundering
"My Lords, on behalf of my noble friend Lady Ludford, who is unwell, and at her request, I beg leave to ask the Question standing in her name on the Order Paper...."Lord Wallace of Saltaire - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 May 2016
Investor Visas: Money Laundering
"I welcome the implications of that statement. We are coming up to the anti-corruption summit, but it is clear from the numbers between 2011 and 2014—when, happily, the Government tightened the rules—that a number of Russian, Chinese and central Asian businessmen were in effect exporting corruption into Britain. It was …..."Lord Wallace of Saltaire - View Speech
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