Passports: Strike Action and Voter ID Debate

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Department: Home Office

Passports: Strike Action and Voter ID

Lord Kamall Excerpts
Monday 20th March 2023

(1 year, 8 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Murray of Blidworth Portrait Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)
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Plainly, that was an issue that the noble Lord should have raised—and no doubt did raise—during the debate on the Elections Bill. It is quite a long way from the topic of this Question, which is about the strikes by the PCS.

Lord Kamall Portrait Lord Kamall (Con)
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Can my noble friend the Minister, having gone through that extensive list, say whether the department has made any estimate of how many people do not have any of the forms of documentation that he listed?

Lord Murray of Blidworth Portrait Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con)
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Well, of course, elections fall within the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities rather than the Home Office, but I am delighted to make that inquiry and write to him, and deposit the answer in the Library of the House.