Detention Of Asylum Seekers (EDM474)

Detention Of Asylum Seekers

EDM number 474 in 1996-97, proposed by Jim Lester on 03/02/1997.

That this House is deeply concerned by the use of Immigration Act detention in asylum cases; notes the view of the UN High Commissioner for refugees that as a general rule asylum seekers should not be detained and insofar as the detention occurs it should be proportionate to the ends to be achieved and for the minimum period; and calls on the Home Secretary to undertake an urgent and thorough review of the Government's current policy in respect of the detention of asylum seekers with a view to ensuring that such practice conforms with the fundamental principles of refugee protection and with r elevant international standards.

This motion has been signed by a total of 122 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Type
James Lester	03/02/1997	Broxtowe	Proposed
Roy Hattersley	03/02/1997	Birmingham Sparkbrook	Signed
Alex Carlile	03/02/1997	Montgomery	Signed
Roseanna Cunningham	03/02/1997	Perth and Kinross	Signed
Neil Gerrard	03/02/1997	Walthamstow	Signed
Ernie Ross	04/02/1997	Dundee West	Signed
Peter Hardy	04/02/1997	Wentworth	Signed
Alan Howarth	04/02/1997	Stratford-on-Avon	Signed
Lynne Jones	04/02/1997	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Signed
David Knox	04/02/1997	Staffordshire Moorlands	Signed
Ken Livingstone	04/02/1997	Brent East	Signed
John McAllion	04/02/1997	Dundee East	Signed
William McKelvey	04/02/1997	Kilmarnock & Loudoun	Signed
Bill Michie	04/02/1997	Sheffield, Heeley	Signed
Richard Burden	04/02/1997	Birmingham, Northfield	Signed
Menzies Campbell	04/02/1997	Fife North East	Signed
Robin Corbett	04/02/1997	Birmingham, Erdington	Signed
John Cummings	04/02/1997	Easington	Signed
John Evans	04/02/1997	St Helens North	Signed
Andrew Faulds	04/02/1997	Warley East	Signed
Norman Godman	04/02/1997	Greenock and Port Glasgow	Signed
Harry Barnes	04/02/1997	North East Derbyshire	Signed
Hugh Bayley	04/02/1997	York, City of	Signed
Peter Bottomley	04/02/1997	Eltham	Signed
Gerry Steinberg	04/02/1997	Durham, City of	Signed
Paddy Tipping	04/02/1997	Sherwood	Signed
Dennis Turner	04/02/1997	Wolverhampton South East	Signed
Colin Pickthall	05/02/1997	West Lancashire	Signed
Dennis Skinner	05/02/1997	Bolsover	Signed
John Home Robertson	05/02/1997	East Lothian	Signed
Alan Meale	05/02/1997	Mansfield	Signed
Eric Clarke	05/02/1997	Midlothian	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	05/02/1997	Islington North	Signed
Jean Corston	05/02/1997	Bristol East	Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	05/02/1997	Leigh	Signed
Jim Cunningham	05/02/1997	Coventry South East	Signed
Kenneth Eastham	05/02/1997	Manchester, Blackley	Signed
Maria Fyfe	05/02/1997	Glasgow, Maryhill	Signed
Tommy Graham	05/02/1997	Renfrew West and Inverclyde	Signed
Tony Banks	05/02/1997	Newham North West	Signed
Joe Benton	05/02/1997	Bootle	Signed
Paul Tyler	05/02/1997	North Cornwall	Signed
Jim Wallace	05/02/1997	Orkney & Shetland	Signed
Mike Watson	05/02/1997	Glasgow Central	Signed
John Heppell	06/02/1997	Nottingham East	Signed
Robert Hughes	06/02/1997	Aberdeen North	Signed
Nigel Jones	06/02/1997	Cheltenham	Signed
Denis MacShane	06/02/1997	Rotherham	Signed
Tom Cox	06/02/1997	Tooting	Signed
Mike Hall	06/02/1997	Warrington South	Signed
Jack Thompson	06/02/1997	Wansbeck	Signed
Don Touhig	06/02/1997	Islwyn	Signed
Clive Soley	10/02/1997	Hammersmith	Signed
Glenda Jackson	10/02/1997	Hampstead & Highgate	Signed
Russell Johnston	10/02/1997	Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber	Signed
Liz Lynne	10/02/1997	Rochdale	Signed
Paul Flynn	10/02/1997	Newport West	Signed
Gerry Bermingham	10/02/1997	St Helens South	Signed
Audrey Wise	10/02/1997	Preston	Signed
Peter Shore	11/02/1997	Bethnal Green and Stepney	Signed
Martin Smyth	11/02/1997	Belfast South	Signed
Helen Jackson	11/02/1997	Sheffield, Hillsborough	Signed
Joan Lestor	11/02/1997	Eccles	Signed
Eddie Loyden	11/02/1997	Liverpool, Garston	Signed
Anne Campbell	11/02/1997	Cambridge	Signed
Harry Cohen	11/02/1997	Leyton	Signed
Michael Connarty	11/02/1997	Falkirk East	Signed
Mike Gapes	11/02/1997	Ilford South	Signed
Keith Vaz	11/02/1997	Leicester East	Signed
Ieuan Wyn Jones	12/02/1997	Ynys M	Signed
Emma Nicholson	12/02/1997	Torridge & West Devon	Signed
Patrick Cormack	12/02/1997	South Staffordshire	Signed
Margaret Ewing	12/02/1997	Moray	Signed
Don Foster	12/02/1997	Bath	Signed
George Foulkes	12/02/1997	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	Signed
John Gunnell	12/02/1997	Leeds South and Morley	Signed
Stephen Timms	12/02/1997	Newham North East	Signed
Tony Worthington	12/02/1997	Clydebank & Milngavie	Signed
Alex Salmond	13/02/1997	Banff & Buchan	Signed
Alan Simpson	13/02/1997	Nottingham South	Signed
Martyn Jones	13/02/1997	Clwyd South West	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	13/02/1997	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Signed
Mildred Gordon	13/02/1997	Bow and Poplar	Signed
Win Griffiths	13/02/1997	Bridgend	Signed
John Battle	13/02/1997	Leeds West	Signed
Tony Benn	13/02/1997	Chesterfield	Signed
Joan Walley	13/02/1997	Stoke-on-Trent North	Signed
Brian Sedgemore	17/02/1997	Hackney South & Shoreditch	Signed
Dudley Fishburn	17/02/1997	Kensington	Signed
David Alton	17/02/1997	Liverpool Mossley Hill	Signed
Alan Beith	17/02/1997	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Signed
Dafydd Wigley	17/02/1997	Caernarfon	Signed
Tam Dalyell	18/02/1997	Linlithgow	Signed
David Rendel	19/02/1997	Newbury	Signed
Nick Harvey	19/02/1997	North Devon	Signed
Charles Kennedy	19/02/1997	Ross and Cromarty and Skye	Signed
Richard Caborn	19/02/1997	Sheffield Central	Signed
Tony Lloyd	20/02/1997	Stretford	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	20/02/1997	Gordon	Signed
Rhodes Boyson	24/02/1997	Brent North	Signed
Simon Hughes	25/02/1997	Southwark and Bermondsey	Signed
Piara S Khabra	25/02/1997	Ealing, Southall	Signed
John Fraser	25/02/1997	Norwood	Signed
John Gilbert	25/02/1997	Dudley East	Signed
David Chidgey	26/02/1997	Eastleigh	Signed
Kevin McNamara	27/02/1997	Kingston upon Hull North	Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	27/02/1997	Crewe & Nantwich	Signed
Bill Etherington	27/02/1997	Sunderland North	Signed
Alan Haselhurst	03/03/1997	Saffron Walden	Signed
David Hanson	04/03/1997	Delyn	Signed
Barbara Roche	04/03/1997	Hornsey & Wood Green	Signed
Ann Clwyd	04/03/1997	Cynon Valley	Signed
Margaret Hodge	05/03/1997	Barking	Signed
Terry Davis	05/03/1997	Birmingham, Hodge Hill	Signed
Brian H Donohoe	05/03/1997	Cunninghame South	Signed
Michael Colvin	06/03/1997	Romsey and Waterside	Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	10/03/1997	Thurrock	Signed
Diana Maddock	10/03/1997	Christchurch	Signed
Seamus Mallon	10/03/1997	Newry & Armagh	Signed
Calum MacDonald	12/03/1997	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Signed
Donald Dixon	12/03/1997	Jarrow	Signed
Andrew Bowden	12/03/1997	Brighton, Kemptown	Signed

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