<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>51855</id>
<session>2017-19</session>
<number>1384</number>
<title>Kingsbarns Community Council's Refugee Initiative</title>
<proposer id="25324">Stephen Gethins</proposer>
<date>2018-06-12</date>
<text>That this House recognises that Europe is facing the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War; notes that those who have become refugees have had to leave their homes in the worst possible situations and seek sanctuary not out of choice but necessity; agrees that we all have a role to play and therefore congratulates Kingsbarns Community Council, that as part of the conditions to approve a new housing development in the village, asked for two houses be provided for Syrian refugee families if local people do not take up those houses; commends the  community that have also undertaken to furnish those houses; and looks forward to welcoming refugees to Kingsbarns in the future.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Asylum</topic>
	<topic>Housing</topic>
	<topic>Local government</topic>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25324">Stephen Gethins</mp>
		<date>2018-06-12</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>North East Fife</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="13864">Jim Shannon</mp>
		<date>2018-06-13</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Strangford</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25306">Chris Stephens</mp>
		<date>2018-06-13</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow South West</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25305">Douglas Chapman</mp>
		<date>2018-06-18</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Dunfermline and West Fife</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25660">Hugh Gaffney</mp>
		<date>2018-07-02</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25327">Alison Thewliss</mp>
		<date>2018-07-12</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow Central</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25268">Alan Brown</mp>
		<date>2018-07-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kilmarnock and Loudoun</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25382">Drew Hendry</mp>
		<date>2018-07-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="12004">Angus MacNeil</mp>
		<date>2018-07-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Na h-Eileanan an Iar</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>