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Hunger Strikers In Detention Centres

EDM number 852 in 1993-94, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 14/03/1994.

That this House is deeply concerned at the parliamentary answer given to the honourable Member for Islington North on 14th March that 61 detainees at detention centres have refused food for at least three days in the past year; is alarmed at reports of hunger strikes amongst detainees at Campsfield Detention Centre; and calls for an urgent statement on this by Home Secretary and an understanding that the grievances of hunger striking asylum seekers will be examined and that there will be no force-feeding.

This motion has been signed by a total of 50 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jeremy Corbyn14/03/1994Islington NorthProposed
Peter Pike14/03/1994BurnleySigned
Tony Worthington14/03/1994Clydebank & MilngavieSigned
Harry Barnes14/03/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Mike Hall14/03/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Mildred Gordon14/03/1994Bow and PoplarSigned
Tom Cox14/03/1994TootingSigned
Anne Campbell14/03/1994CambridgeSigned
Alice Mahon14/03/1994HalifaxSigned
Terry Lewis14/03/1994WorsleySigned
Kevin Hughes14/03/1994Doncaster NorthSigned
Jimmy Hood14/03/1994ClydesdaleSigned
Llew Smith14/03/1994Blaenau GwentSigned
Dennis Skinner14/03/1994BolsoverSigned
Mike Watson15/03/1994Glasgow CentralSigned
Hugh Bayley15/03/1994York, City ofSigned
Diane Abbott15/03/1994Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
Norman Godman15/03/1994Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie15/03/1994Glasgow, PollokSigned
Jim Dowd15/03/1994Lewisham WestSigned
John Cummings15/03/1994EasingtonSigned
Harry Cohen15/03/1994LeytonSigned
Bill Michie15/03/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Ian McCartney15/03/1994MakerfieldSigned
Ken Livingstone15/03/1994Brent EastSigned
Lynne Jones15/03/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Eric Illsley15/03/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Colin Pickthall15/03/1994West LancashireSigned
Michael Connarty15/03/1994Falkirk EastSigned
Helen Jackson16/03/1994Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
John Gunnell16/03/1994Leeds South and MorleySigned
Eddie Loyden16/03/1994Liverpool, GarstonSigned
John Heppell16/03/1994Nottingham EastSigned
Alan Simpson16/03/1994Nottingham SouthSigned
Jeff Rooker16/03/1994Birmingham, Perry BarrSigned
Bridget Prentice16/03/1994Lewisham EastSigned
Robert Parry16/03/1994Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Peter Hardy16/03/1994WentworthSigned
Derek Enright17/03/1994HemsworthSigned
George Galloway17/03/1994Glasgow HillheadSigned
Tony Banks17/03/1994Newham North WestSigned
Neil Gerrard18/03/1994WalthamstowSigned
Paddy Tipping21/03/1994SherwoodSigned
Keith Vaz22/03/1994Leicester EastSigned
Andrew Faulds23/03/1994Warley EastSigned
Tommy Graham23/03/1994Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Bill Etherington24/03/1994Sunderland NorthSigned
Nick Ainger24/03/1994PembrokeSigned
Michael Clapham29/03/1994Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Bob CryerUnknownWithdrawn

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