Immigration: Home Office Procedures

Lord Hylton Excerpts

Tuesday 23rd November 2010 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Neville-Jones]

My Lords, I am afraid that I am not familiar with that provision. I understand why the noble Lord is asking the question; I fear that I will have to look into the matter and perhaps write to him.

[Lord Hylton]

My Lords, as regards asylum applicants—which is a part of this larger question—is the noble Baroness aware that the UK borders authority operates a dispersal programme and system? Will she encourage it by all possible means also to disperse its centralised Croydon office to the regions so that applicants do not have to travel huge distances at great inconvenience for their principal interviews?

[Baroness Neville-Jones]

My Lords, is this in relation to passport applications? Is that the question the noble Lord is asking?

[Lord Hylton]

No. It is to do with asylum applications.

[Baroness Neville-Jones]

My Lords, I will have to see what can be done. This seems rather distant from the original Question.