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Hong Kong Ethnic Minorities

EDM number 374 in 1996-97, proposed by Menzies Campbell on 18/12/1996.

That this House calls upon Her Majesty's Government to grant to the approximately five thousand ethnic minority non-Chinese living in Hong Kong British citizenship and the right of abode in the United Kingdom as a recognition of their contribution to the life of Hong Kong and their loyalty to the Crown, and in order to ensure that after 1st July 1997 they do not becomes stateless.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Menzies Campbell18/12/1996Fife North EastProposed
Russell Johnston18/12/1996Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Charles Kennedy18/12/1996Ross and Cromarty and SkyeSigned
Archy Kirkwood18/12/1996Roxburgh & BerwickshireSigned
Emma Nicholson18/12/1996Torridge & West DevonSigned
David Steel18/12/1996Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleSigned
Jim Wallace15/01/1997Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Nick Harvey16/01/1997North DevonSigned
Paul Flynn16/01/1997Newport WestSigned
Peter Thurnham20/01/1997Bolton North EastSigned
Matthew Taylor20/01/1997TruroSigned
Malcolm Bruce20/01/1997GordonSigned
Ray Michie20/01/1997Argyll & ButeSigned
Ken Livingstone20/01/1997Brent EastSigned
David Rendel21/01/1997NewburySigned
Jeremy Corbyn21/01/1997Islington NorthSigned
David Chidgey22/01/1997EastleighSigned
Diana Maddock23/01/1997ChristchurchSigned
Don Foster23/01/1997BathSigned
Andrew Faulds27/01/1997Warley EastSigned
Alan Beith28/01/1997Berwick-upon-TweedSigned
Simon Hughes30/01/1997Southwark and BermondseySigned
Martyn Jones30/01/1997Clwyd South WestSigned
Gerry Bermingham31/01/1997St Helens SouthSigned
Nigel Jones04/02/1997CheltenhamSigned
Tommy Graham05/02/1997Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned

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