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Right Of Abode For Former British-Hong Kong Servicemen

EDM number 92 in 2013-14, proposed by Andrew Rosindell on 14/05/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Immigration, Nationality and Veterans.

That this House recognises the enormous contribution to Britain of the former Hong Kong Armed Forces from 1857 until 1997; believes that those remaining soldiers of the Hong Kong Military Service Corps and the Hong Kong Royal Naval Service who did not receive a UK passport following the handover of Hong Kong to China should now be offered that choice; notes that not more than some 500 soldiers were given a UK passport in 1997 under the then passport selection scheme; further notes that the remainder of the military Corps and some 100 Royal Naval servicemen were left behind; acknowledges that these men and their ancestors have served British commitments in south-east Asia greatly, stood shoulder to shoulder with Britain through two World Wars as well as alongside Britain in France, Burma, Korea, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and the United Nations for King, Queen and country; and calls on the Government to recognise that the decision not to have asked each serviceman to freely transfer their nationality from British-Hong Kong to Hong Kong-Chinese was unjust and an error that should now be rectified.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Andrew Rosindell14/05/2013RomfordConservativeProposed
Bob Russell15/05/2013ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley15/05/2013Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Jim Shannon15/05/2013StrangfordDUPSeconded
Alan Meale15/05/2013MansfieldLabourSeconded
Naomi Long16/05/2013Belfast EastAllianceSeconded
Jim Dobbin20/05/2013Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Mike Hancock20/05/2013Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Lady Hermon21/05/2013North DownIndependentSigned
Edward Leigh21/05/2013GainsboroughConservativeSigned
Martin Caton21/05/2013GowerLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd03/06/2013Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Jim McGovern03/06/2013Dundee WestLabourSigned
Albert Owen03/06/2013Ynys MLabourSigned
Julian Lewis03/06/2013New Forest EastConservativeSigned
David Ward04/06/2013Bradford EastLiberal DemocratSigned
David Morris04/06/2013Morecambe and LunesdaleConservativeSigned
Sammy Wilson05/06/2013East AntrimDUPSigned
Graeme Morrice05/06/2013LivingstonLabourSigned
Craig Whittaker12/06/2013Calder ValleyConservativeSigned
Patrick Mercer19/06/2013NewarkConservativeSigned
Lindsay Roy19/06/2013GlenrothesLabourSigned
Katy Clark03/07/2013North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Andrew Bridgen02/09/2013North West LeicestershireConservativeSigned
Andrew Love08/10/2013EdmontonLabourSigned
Simon Reevell10/10/2013DewsburyConservativeSigned
Anne Begg19/11/2013Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Michael Crockart21/11/2013Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George26/11/2013St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Ruddock19/12/2013Lewisham, DeptfordLabourSigned
Mark Williams09/01/2014CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Adrian Sanders29/01/2014TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Campbell28/04/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Ian Mearns28/04/2014GatesheadLabourSigned
Hywel Williams28/04/2014ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Julian Brazier28/04/2014CanterburyConservativeSigned
Glenda Jackson28/04/2014Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
John Leech29/04/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty30/04/2014Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Kate Hoey01/05/2014VauxhallLabourSigned
Jeremy Lefroy01/05/2014StaffordConservativeSigned

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