HC Deb 25 January 2001 vol 361 cc710-1W
Mr. John Cryer

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Sir E. Heath) and Dame Angela Rumbold concerning the naturalisation applications of S. P. and G. P. Hinduja. [146094]

Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 18 January 2001,Official Report, columns 351–52W, on British citizenship, (a) if he will list the other hon. Members who contacted him concerning this application, (b) on what date communications were received from each hon. Member who contacted him in this case, (c) if he will place in the Library copies of the letters received from (i) the hon. Members for (a) Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) and (b) Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz) and (ii) the other hon. Members referred to in his answer, (d) if he will list the nationality applications since May 1997 concerning which communications have been received from the right hon. Member for Hartlepool other than those relating to his constituents and (e) if a reply was sent to the right hon. Member for Hartlepool; and if he will make a statement. [147183]

Mr. Straw

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, announced on 24 January that he had asked former Treasury Solicitor, Sir Anthony Hammond QC, to review the full circumstances surrounding approaches to the Home Office in connection with the possibility of an application for naturalisation by Mr. S. P. Hinduja in 1998. This review is starting immediately and will be completed as quickly as possible. The findings will be published and copies of these will be placed in the Vote Office and the Library. It would be inappropriate for me to pre-empt the outcome of this review.

Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the dates on which applications for nationality have been received by(a) Mr. G. P. Hinduja and (b) Mr. S. P. Hinduja since 1990. [147178]

Mr. Straw

Mr. G. P. Hinduja applied for British citizenship on 21 February 1990 and 5 March 1997.

Mr. S. P. Hinduja applied on 21 February 1990 and 20 October 1998.