§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons died in fires in each year since 1979, where the fire was located in(a) domestic dwellings, (b) industrial installations, (c) private residential homes, (d) offices, (e) recreational venues, (f) high-rise flats and (g) public houses, clubs and discotheques.
§ Mr. Charles WardleThe available information is given in the table.
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)
Law Centres Federation
Law Society
National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux
Refugee Legal Centre
Copies of the working draft were placed in the Vote Office and Library of the House. They were also made available, on request, to a number of legal practitioners and others. Officials held meetings in December with representatives of ILPA, JCWI and the Law Society to discuss their written responses to the working draft.
§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department further to his oral statement of 4 May,Official Report, columns 823–26, what are the compelling and compassionate circumstances in which it may allow an application from a homosexual non-United Kingdom citizen for leave to remain in the United Kingdom with a homosexual partner who is a United Kingdom citizen.
§ Mr. Charles WardleFactors which may be taken into account in assessing whether compelling compassionate circumstances are present in such an application are the health of the settled partner and the length and stability of the relationship.
§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for leave to remain in the United Kingdom made by non-United Kingdom citizens on the basis of a same-sex relationship with a citizen of the United Kingdom have been(a) accepted and (b) rejected since 1990.
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§ Mr. Charles WardleThe information requested is not separately identified in the statistics.