Vagrancy Act

EDM number 146 in 1989-90, proposed by Llin Golding on 05/12/1989.

That this House, deeply conscious of the plight of the homeless, and aware of the desperate poverty of some people of which homelessness is both cause and effect, is concerned by the number of prosecutions being brought under the Vagrancy Act against both those who are homeless and those forced to beg; and calls for both an end to these prosecutions which make criminals of the natural victims of society, and the urgent repeal of sections 3 and 4 of the archaic Vagrancy Act of 1834, and section 64 of the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839.

This motion has been signed by a total of 50 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Llin Golding	05/12/1989	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Proposed
Robin Squire	05/12/1989	Hornchurch		Seconded
Frank Field	05/12/1989	Birkenhead		Seconded
John Smith	05/12/1989	Vale of Glamorgan		Seconded
Jimmy Dunnachie	06/12/1989	Glasgow, Pollok		Seconded
Roland Boyes	06/12/1989	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Keith Bradley	06/12/1989	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Richard Caborn	06/12/1989	Sheffield Central		Signed
Frank Cook	06/12/1989	Stockton North		Signed
John Cummings	06/12/1989	Easington		Signed
David Alton	06/12/1989	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
Bill Michie	06/12/1989	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Alan Meale	06/12/1989	Mansfield		Signed
Terry Patchett	06/12/1989	Barnsley East		Signed
Ernie Ross	06/12/1989	Dundee West		Signed
David Hinchliffe	06/12/1989	Wakefield		Signed
Tony Lloyd	06/12/1989	Stretford		Signed
John McAllion	06/12/1989	Dundee East		Signed
William McKelvey	06/12/1989	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Tony Banks	07/12/1989	Newham North West		Signed
Win Griffiths	07/12/1989	Bridgend		Signed
John Evans	07/12/1989	St Helens North		Signed
Alexander Eadie	07/12/1989	Midlothian		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	07/12/1989	Islington North		Signed
Harry Cohen	07/12/1989	Leyton		Signed
Alice Mahon	07/12/1989	Halifax		Signed
Doug Hoyle	07/12/1989	Warrington North		Signed
Max Madden	07/12/1989	Bradford West		Signed
Diane Abbott	08/12/1989	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
Tom Cox	11/12/1989	Tooting		Signed
Ian McCartney	11/12/1989	Makerfield		Signed
Greville Janner	11/12/1989	Leicester West		Signed
Eric Illsley	11/12/1989	Barnsley Central		Signed
Norman Hogg	11/12/1989	Cumbernauld & Kilsyth		Signed
Peter Hardy	11/12/1989	Wentworth		Signed
Jeff Rooker	11/12/1989	Birmingham, Perry Barr		Signed
Michael Welsh	12/12/1989	Doncaster North		Signed
Andrew Faulds	12/12/1989	Warley East		Signed
Frank Doran	12/12/1989	Aberdeen South		Signed
Chris Smith	14/12/1989	Islington South & Finsbury		Signed
John McFall	15/12/1989	Dumbarton		Signed
Terry Lewis	18/12/1989	Worsley		Signed
Jack Thompson	21/12/1989	Wansbeck		Signed
Tommy Graham	18/01/1990	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
George Howarth	25/01/1990	Knowsley North		Signed
Jimmy Hood	25/01/1990	Clydesdale		Signed
George Galloway	06/02/1990	Glasgow Hillhead		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	08/02/1990	Workington		Signed
George Young	Unknown			Withdrawn
Norman Buchan	Unknown			Withdrawn

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