Proceeding contribution from Countess of Mar (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 3 November 2010. It occurred during Debate on bill and Committee proceeding on Identity Documents Bill.
Identity Documents Bill
I was going to apologise for holding up the Committee, but my intervention seems to be opportune. I am puzzled because Clause 10 is about verifying information provided with passport applications and we are provided with a whole list of people who can verify applications. Why then do we need paragraph (i)? If there has to be an order made by the Secretary of State, and if that has to be debated in both Houses of Parliament, it will take time to verify information. Surely not every one of the others listed has to verify information. Surely only one or two of those people would do so. Why go to the length of having an order debated in Parliament in order to verify information on a passport? Will it apply to the passport of one individual, or will it be a block verification order?
Secondary information
- Type
- Proceeding contribution
- Reference
- 721 c53GC
- Session
- 2010-12
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Lords Grand Committee
- Subjects
- Fraud Identity cards Personal records Personation Proof of identity Passports Vetting
- Legislation
- Identity Documents Bill 2010-12
- Link
- View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk
Librarians' tools
- Timestamp
- 2023-12-15 20:54:32 +0000
- URI
- http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_676743
- In Indexing
- http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_676743
- In Solr
- https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://data.parliament.uk/pimsdata/hansard/CONTRIBUTION_676743