Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, if she will meet with the Home Secretary to discuss the long-standing anomaly whereby Northern Ireland residents born in the Irish Republic since 1949 continue to face restrictions on obtaining UK passports.

I am aware of your long-standing interest in this issue and my Department has raised this matter with the Home Office who are responsible for this policy.

Under Common Travel Area arrangements British and Irish citizens have the right to enter and remain in the other state without requiring permission.