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HANSARDPassports: Strike Action and Voter IDI am afraid that this question, too, is an awfully long way from the Private Notice Question in relation to the action taken in the Passport Office. As to forms of identity for…20 Mar 2023HANSARDPassports: Strike Action and Voter IDThe noble Lord is perhaps fortunate in that I received notice last week, together with my council tax bill for the coming year. I understand that that is fairly wide practice.20 Mar 2023HANSARDPassports: Strike Action and Voter IDYes, indeed; the noble Viscount is right. EU and EEA passports and identity cards are valid.20 Mar 2023HANSARDPassports: Strike Action and Voter IDOf course.20 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023 Relevant document: 30th Report from the Secondary Legislation…20 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023My Lords, I am very pleased to be able to present these draft rules, which deal with two vitally important issues, to the Committee. I will first touch on the provisions in…20 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023This is the application process to proceed without serving notice. The Secretary of State may know, for example, the person’s name, the person’s nationality or nationalities and…20 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023My Lords, I am grateful for those two considered contributions. I obviously appreciate the strength of feeling about deprivation of citizenship, but perhaps the Committee will…20 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023It is clearly right—this comes back to another question I was going to deal with in a moment—that the power can be exercised only in cases of persons entitled to more than one…20 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023I can certainly write to the noble Lord about it, but the short point is this: if SIAC is concerned, on the balance of probabilities, that somebody has only British citizenship…20 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023Indeed, as with any court. In respect of the noble Lord’s question on Rule 47 as to credibility, the question being whether a claimant’s good reasons for responding late to a…20 Mar 2023HANSARDSpecial Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) (Amendment) Rules 2023In relation to Rule 25E, the noble Baroness is quite right. It is imperative that the commission determines the application on paper and without a hearing. As I elucidated a…20 Mar 2023HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeAs the noble Earl rightly observes, the High Court judgment upheld both limbs of the IMA challenge: first, that the withdrawal agreement residence right of a holder of pre-settled…13 Mar 2023HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeYes, indeed. It is in that spirit of co-operation that the Government have determined that the appropriate method of resolving this case is to accept the present…13 Mar 2023HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI entirely agree with the right reverend Prelate that clearly it helps that the Home Office works very closely with those in the Commission in relation to the respective rights of…13 Mar 2023HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI entirely agree with my noble friend and can reassure him that the department works very closely with our colleagues in Brussels in relation to the protection of the rights of UK…13 Mar 2023HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI can certainly confirm that it is our intention to abide by the judgment. We work very closely with the IMA and will continue to do so.13 Mar 2023HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeI can confirm that work is proceeding to implement the judgment. As the noble Baroness will have noticed, the High Court accepted, in paragraphs 188 and 191 of its judgment, that…13 Mar 2023HANSARDEU Settlement SchemeWe have informed the High Court that we do not wish to pursue an appeal against the judgment. This avoids continuing uncertainty for those affected. We are working to implement…13 Mar 2023HANSARDCarriers’ Liability (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate and acknowledge the particular concerns of the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. The measures in these two…13 Mar 2023