Lord Marlesford

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Henley on 10 January 2012 and 13 March 2012 (HL14312 and HL16133), how many members of Home Office staff have been convicted of criminal offences in connection with their official act...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what lessons have been drawn from the conviction and sentence to 15 years imprisonment in April of Shamsu Iqbal an official in the immigration department of the Home Office for falsifying the immigration records; and what s...

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many employees of the Home Office are (1) not British citizens, or (2) British citizens by naturalisation.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many UK passport holders also hold one or more additional passports; and whether they will indicate the number of such passports for each of the 50 non-UK countries whose passports are most often currently so held.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether immigration officials at entry or departure points from the UK have the real-time ability to check whether a UK passport holder (1) holds other passports, (2) is serving a custodial sentence or is on bail, and (3) h...

To ask Her Majesty's Government at which public points of departure from the UK all departing persons have their passports checked at immigration control; and what percentage of passports are checked at each point of departure.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to prosecute British citizens who have travelled to the Middle East to take part in military operations of the Islamic State; and whether they will do so in cases where those citizens are regarded as pos...

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have considered there may be serious grounds for suspecting the nerve gas used in the Salisbury attack on 5 March was brought into England by the Russian diplomatic bag, contrary to Article 27(4) of the 1961 Vi...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to monitor the risk exposure of local authorities acting as property developers and commercial landlords with the primary aim of generating income, as recommended by the Public Accounts Committee ...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the extent to which access to funds from the Public Works Loan Board by local authorities for the purpose of investing in commercial properties is compliant with the provisions of the Prude...

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to arrange for all persons serving custodial sentences for terrorist offences to receive copies of the judgment of Mr Justice Haddon-Cave when he sentenced Ahmed Hassan to a minimum of 34 years in prison...

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the total taxable income of UK farmers in each of the last ten years; and in each of those years, what were the total payments received by UK farmers from the EU Common Agricultural Policy.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many deaths of people serving custodial sentences there have been in each of the last five years; and for each year, how many of those deaths were the result of (1) suicide, (2) violence, and (3) natural causes.

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 1 March, whether they have the power to set up a judge-led review of the report of the Chief Constable of Wiltshire into the allegations against Sir Edward Heath.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many individuals are currently subject to exclusion orders from the UK; and whether their names are available online to all immigration officers so that they can be prevented from re-entering the UK.

To ask Her Majesty's Government why the Portuguese citizen, Marcos Amaral Gourgel, who died in Westminster Underground station on 14 February and who had been deported from the UK after his release from serving a custodial sentence for child sex offences,...

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have any plans to ensure that letters from Members addressed to ministers are sent straight to the Minister's Private Office and not to the general correspondence section of Departments.

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many British citizens who travelled to the Middle East to join the armed forces of the Islamic State are known to have returned to the UK; and how many of those are currently held in custody in the UK.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they routinely inform the government of the Republic of Ireland of the details of all persons who have been deported from the UK or who are subject to exclusion orders from the UK.

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will consider the cost and method of introducing a secure national identity number, with electronic links to a centrally held register of biometric data, for all UK citizens.