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Voucher System For Asylum Seekers

EDM number 575 in 2000-01, proposed by Iain Coleman on 09/04/2001.

That this House notes that the voucher system for asylum seekers has now been in operation for 12 months; further notes, and agrees with, the comments of the President of the TUC regarding the inefficient and wasteful bureaucracy of the system and the very regretable stigmatising and degrading aspects of the system; therefore calls upon the Government to abandon the system without delay in order to return to a system of benefit entitlement for asylum seekers; and unreservedly condemns the brutal, expensive and unworkable policy of the Conservative Opposition to detain compulsorily all new asylum seekers, including women and children.

This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Iain Coleman09/04/2001Hammersmith & FulhamLabourProposed
Alan Simpson09/04/2001Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
John Austin09/04/2001Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard09/04/2001WalthamstowLabourSigned
Clive Efford09/04/2001ElthamLabourSigned
John Cryer09/04/2001HornchurchLabourSigned
Ann Cryer09/04/2001KeighleyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn09/04/2001Islington NorthLabourSigned
Karen Buck09/04/2001Regent's Park and Kensington NorthLabourSigned
John McDonnell09/04/2001Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Oona King09/04/2001Bethnal Green & BowLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt10/04/2001Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Simon Thomas10/04/2001CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Roger Berry10/04/2001KingswoodLabourSigned
Harry Barnes10/04/2001North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Norman Godman10/04/2001Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Maria Fyfe10/04/2001Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
Bill Etherington10/04/2001Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Valerie Davey10/04/2001Bristol WestLabourSigned
Vincent Cable10/04/2001TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Brand10/04/2001Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Michie10/04/2001Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Alice Mahon10/04/2001HalifaxLabourSigned
Nigel Jones10/04/2001CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey10/04/2001North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Dennis Skinner10/04/2001BolsoverLabourSigned
Brian Sedgemore10/04/2001Hackney South & ShoreditchLabourSigned
Martin Caton10/04/2001GowerLabourSigned
Julie Morgan23/04/2001Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones23/04/2001Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe23/04/2001LeighLabourSigned
Rudi Vis23/04/2001Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Win Griffiths24/04/2001BridgendLabourSigned
Ann Clwyd24/04/2001Cynon ValleyLabourSigned
Michael Clapham24/04/2001Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Eric Clarke24/04/2001MidlothianLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins25/04/2001Luton NorthLabourSigned
Tess Kingham25/04/2001GloucesterLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith25/04/2001Bristol North WestLabour Co-operativeSigned
Michael Connarty25/04/2001Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Harold Best25/04/2001Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Robert Wareing25/04/2001Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Simon Hughes26/04/2001North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Jenny Tonge26/04/2001Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell26/04/2001Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Lewis26/04/2001WorsleyLabourSigned
Frank Cook27/04/2001Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Tom Cox27/04/2001TootingLabourSigned
Terry Davis30/04/2001Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
David Drew03/05/2001StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Kevin McNamara09/05/2001Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned

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