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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.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
James Lester03/02/1997BroxtoweProposed
Roy Hattersley03/02/1997Birmingham SparkbrookSigned
Alex Carlile03/02/1997MontgomerySigned
Roseanna Cunningham03/02/1997Perth and KinrossSigned
Neil Gerrard03/02/1997WalthamstowSigned
Ernie Ross04/02/1997Dundee WestSigned
Peter Hardy04/02/1997WentworthSigned
Alan Howarth04/02/1997Stratford-on-AvonSigned
Lynne Jones04/02/1997Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
David Knox04/02/1997Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Ken Livingstone04/02/1997Brent EastSigned
John McAllion04/02/1997Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey04/02/1997Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Bill Michie04/02/1997Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Richard Burden04/02/1997Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Menzies Campbell04/02/1997Fife North EastSigned
Robin Corbett04/02/1997Birmingham, ErdingtonSigned
John Cummings04/02/1997EasingtonSigned
John Evans04/02/1997St Helens NorthSigned
Andrew Faulds04/02/1997Warley EastSigned
Norman Godman04/02/1997Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Harry Barnes04/02/1997North East DerbyshireSigned
Hugh Bayley04/02/1997York, City ofSigned
Peter Bottomley04/02/1997ElthamSigned
Gerry Steinberg04/02/1997Durham, City ofSigned
Paddy Tipping04/02/1997SherwoodSigned
Dennis Turner04/02/1997Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Colin Pickthall05/02/1997West LancashireSigned
Dennis Skinner05/02/1997BolsoverSigned
John Home Robertson05/02/1997East LothianSigned
Alan Meale05/02/1997MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke05/02/1997MidlothianSigned
Jeremy Corbyn05/02/1997Islington NorthSigned
Jean Corston05/02/1997Bristol EastSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe05/02/1997LeighSigned
Jim Cunningham05/02/1997Coventry South EastSigned
Kenneth Eastham05/02/1997Manchester, BlackleySigned
Maria Fyfe05/02/1997Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Tommy Graham05/02/1997Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Tony Banks05/02/1997Newham North WestSigned
Joe Benton05/02/1997BootleSigned
Paul Tyler05/02/1997North CornwallSigned
Jim Wallace05/02/1997Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Mike Watson05/02/1997Glasgow CentralSigned
John Heppell06/02/1997Nottingham EastSigned
Robert Hughes06/02/1997Aberdeen NorthSigned
Nigel Jones06/02/1997CheltenhamSigned
Denis MacShane06/02/1997RotherhamSigned
Tom Cox06/02/1997TootingSigned
Mike Hall06/02/1997Warrington SouthSigned
Jack Thompson06/02/1997WansbeckSigned
Don Touhig06/02/1997IslwynSigned
Clive Soley10/02/1997HammersmithSigned
Glenda Jackson10/02/1997Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Russell Johnston10/02/1997Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Liz Lynne10/02/1997RochdaleSigned
Paul Flynn10/02/1997Newport WestSigned
Gerry Bermingham10/02/1997St Helens SouthSigned
Audrey Wise10/02/1997PrestonSigned
Peter Shore11/02/1997Bethnal Green and StepneySigned
Martin Smyth11/02/1997Belfast SouthSigned
Helen Jackson11/02/1997Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Joan Lestor11/02/1997EcclesSigned
Eddie Loyden11/02/1997Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Anne Campbell11/02/1997CambridgeSigned
Harry Cohen11/02/1997LeytonSigned
Michael Connarty11/02/1997Falkirk EastSigned
Mike Gapes11/02/1997Ilford SouthSigned
Keith Vaz11/02/1997Leicester EastSigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones12/02/1997Ynys MSigned
Emma Nicholson12/02/1997Torridge & West DevonSigned
Patrick Cormack12/02/1997South StaffordshireSigned
Margaret Ewing12/02/1997MoraySigned
Don Foster12/02/1997BathSigned
George Foulkes12/02/1997Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleySigned
John Gunnell12/02/1997Leeds South and MorleySigned
Stephen Timms12/02/1997Newham North EastSigned
Tony Worthington12/02/1997Clydebank & MilngavieSigned
Alex Salmond13/02/1997Banff & BuchanSigned
Alan Simpson13/02/1997Nottingham SouthSigned
Martyn Jones13/02/1997Clwyd South WestSigned
Elfyn Llwyd13/02/1997Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Mildred Gordon13/02/1997Bow and PoplarSigned
Win Griffiths13/02/1997BridgendSigned
John Battle13/02/1997Leeds WestSigned
Tony Benn13/02/1997ChesterfieldSigned
Joan Walley13/02/1997Stoke-on-Trent NorthSigned
Brian Sedgemore17/02/1997Hackney South & ShoreditchSigned
Dudley Fishburn17/02/1997KensingtonSigned
David Alton17/02/1997Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Alan Beith17/02/1997Berwick-upon-TweedSigned
Dafydd Wigley17/02/1997CaernarfonSigned
Tam Dalyell18/02/1997LinlithgowSigned
David Rendel19/02/1997NewburySigned
Nick Harvey19/02/1997North DevonSigned
Charles Kennedy19/02/1997Ross and Cromarty and SkyeSigned
Richard Caborn19/02/1997Sheffield CentralSigned
Tony Lloyd20/02/1997StretfordSigned
Malcolm Bruce20/02/1997GordonSigned
Rhodes Boyson24/02/1997Brent NorthSigned
Simon Hughes25/02/1997Southwark and BermondseySigned
Piara S Khabra25/02/1997Ealing, SouthallSigned
John Fraser25/02/1997NorwoodSigned
John Gilbert25/02/1997Dudley EastSigned
David Chidgey26/02/1997EastleighSigned
Kevin McNamara27/02/1997Kingston upon Hull NorthSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody27/02/1997Crewe & NantwichSigned
Bill Etherington27/02/1997Sunderland NorthSigned
Alan Haselhurst03/03/1997Saffron WaldenSigned
David Hanson04/03/1997DelynSigned
Barbara Roche04/03/1997Hornsey & Wood GreenSigned
Ann Clwyd04/03/1997Cynon ValleySigned
Margaret Hodge05/03/1997BarkingSigned
Terry Davis05/03/1997Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Brian H Donohoe05/03/1997Cunninghame SouthSigned
Michael Colvin06/03/1997Romsey and WatersideSigned
Andrew MacKinlay10/03/1997ThurrockSigned
Diana Maddock10/03/1997ChristchurchSigned
Seamus Mallon10/03/1997Newry & ArmaghSigned
Calum MacDonald12/03/1997Na h-Eileanan an IarSigned
Donald Dixon12/03/1997JarrowSigned
Andrew Bowden12/03/1997Brighton, KemptownSigned

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