<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>51372</id>
<session>2017-19</session>
<number>903</number>
<title>Repeal Of The Vagrancy Act 1824</title>
<proposer id="25689">Layla Moran</proposer>
<date>2018-02-05</date>
<text>That this House expresses grave concern over the continuing use of the Vagrancy Act 1824 to criminalise homeless people who are rough sleeping; notes with concern that this Dickensian law was used 1,810 times in 2016-17; welcomes that this Act is no longer in force in Scotland and Northern Ireland; and urges the Government to repeal this harmful and out-of-date legislation across the whole of the UK.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Homelessness</topic>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25689">Layla Moran</mp>
		<date>2018-02-05</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Oxford West and Abingdon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="24754">Stephen Lloyd</mp>
		<date>2018-02-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Eastbourne</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10084">Vincent Cable</mp>
		<date>2018-02-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Twickenham</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11923">Tim Farron</mp>
		<date>2018-02-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Westmorland and Lonsdale</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="24910">Caroline Lucas</mp>
		<date>2018-02-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Brighton, Pavilion</constituency>
		<party>Green</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11032">Norman Lamb</mp>
		<date>2018-02-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>North Norfolk</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="13864">Jim Shannon</mp>
		<date>2018-02-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Strangford</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10785">Alistair Carmichael</mp>
		<date>2018-02-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orkney and Shetland</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10063">Tom Brake</mp>
		<date>2018-02-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Carshalton and Wallington</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11971">Jo Swinson</mp>
		<date>2018-02-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Dunbartonshire</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25321">Marie Rimmer</mp>
		<date>2018-02-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Helens South and Whiston</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10958">Lady Hermon</mp>
		<date>2018-02-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Down</constituency>
		<party>Independent</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25306">Chris Stephens</mp>
		<date>2018-02-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow South West</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25675">Christine Jardine</mp>
		<date>2018-02-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Edinburgh West</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25409">Hannah Bardell</mp>
		<date>2018-02-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Livingston</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10147">Jim Cunningham</mp>
		<date>2018-02-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coventry South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="24927">Mary Glindon</mp>
		<date>2018-02-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Tyneside</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25268">Alan Brown</mp>
		<date>2018-02-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kilmarnock and Loudoun</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25382">Drew Hendry</mp>
		<date>2018-02-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25386">Daniel Zeichner</mp>
		<date>2018-03-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cambridge</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="25648">Wera Hobhouse</mp>
		<date>2018-03-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bath</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11559">Andy Slaughter</mp>
		<date>2018-06-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hammersmith</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>