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Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

My Lords, I am a little concerned about this amendment; care should be taken because, like the noble Lord, in my business life, I, too, had two British passports: one to enter South Africa and one to enter Kenya and other parts of Africa: with the same passport you could not do both. I have always been entitled to an Irish passport, which is often very much more useful to entering the United States, for example, where I am likely to be arrested if I enter on a British passport. There are all sorts of reasons why business people, politicians and the like might need more than one passport—in my case, three. I would hate to feel that the Irish passport details were on a database alongside my British passport or that, if I had a second British passport, it was also on a database so that the world’s terrorist organisations or anyone else could suss exactly where I was and what I was doing.