Urgent Question: use of fake British passports
23 February 2010 (updated on 22 April 2010)
Chris Bryant, Foreign Office Minister for Europe, answered an urgent question from Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, on the use of fake British passports by people implicated in the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. The Government also made a written ministerial statement on the subject.
- Video and Audio: Urgent Question: British passports (Dubai)
- Commons Hansard: Urgent Question: British passports (Dubai)
- Written ministerial statement: Fraudulent use of passports (Investigation)
- About Parliament: Written ministerial statements
Urgent questions
Urgent questions are asked at the end of Question Time. If something has happened - usually a matter of public importance - which an MP believes requires an immediate answer from a government minister, he may apply to the Speaker to ask an urgent question. If the latter agrees, the question will be asked at the end of regular Question Time.