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Albert Tong

EDM number 1013 in 1995-96, proposed by Matthew Taylor on 18/06/1996.

That this House notes that the Home Secretary has pledged to deport Mr Albert Tong, despite the overwhelming support of people in Cornwall for Mr Tong to be allowed to stay in the country, measured by polls conducted by both West Country Television and the Western Morning News; notes that Mr Tong has lived in the United Kingdom for 17 years, and has never had recourse to any state funds; notes that Mr Tong's deportation will separate him from his Cornish born wife and his Cornish born three year old daughter; further notes that were the family to join him in Hong Kong they would have nowhere to live and no way of earning a living in a strange country, and that their position would be uncertain after the handover to China in 1997; believes that the views and actions of the Home Secretary in seeking to break up this Cornish family are inhumane; and calls on the Government to reconsider and allow the family to stay together peacefully in Cornwall.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Matthew Taylor18/06/1996TruroProposed
Nick Harvey18/06/1996North DevonSigned
Paul Tyler18/06/1996North CornwallSigned
Colin Pickthall19/06/1996West LancashireSigned
Robert Parry19/06/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Russell Johnston19/06/1996Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Ken Livingstone19/06/1996Brent EastSigned
Bill Michie19/06/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Andrew Faulds19/06/1996Warley EastSigned
Harry Barnes20/06/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Alex Carlile20/06/1996MontgomerySigned
Alan Simpson20/06/1996Nottingham SouthSigned
Gordon Prentice20/06/1996PendleSigned
Alex Salmond21/06/1996Banff & BuchanSigned
Neil Gerrard25/06/1996WalthamstowSigned
John Gunnell25/06/1996Leeds South and MorleySigned
David Steel25/06/1996Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleSigned
Jim Wallace25/06/1996Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Jeremy Corbyn26/06/1996Islington NorthSigned
Jean Corston26/06/1996Bristol EastSigned
Mike Hall26/06/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Emma Nicholson01/07/1996Torridge & West DevonSigned
Nigel Jones09/07/1996CheltenhamSigned
Audrey Wise17/07/1996PrestonSigned

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