Voting Rights Of Sentenced Prisoners (EDM729)

Voting Rights Of Sentenced Prisoners

EDM number 729 in 2003-04, proposed by Mark Oaten on 01/03/2004.

That this House notes that the 60,000 sentenced prisoners in England and Wales are barred from voting under the Forfeiture Act 1870, which considers prisoners to be civically dead and so morally abhorrent that they do not deserved the right to vote; notes additionally that the UK is only one of eight European countries automatically to disenfranchise sentenced prisoners, the others being Armenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Luxembourg and Romania; understands that the ban does not enhance security, punishment, or act as a deterrent; is concerned that it impedes the rehabilitative objectives of the Prison Service by failing to encourage prisoners to be active responsible citizens on release; notes, in particular, that the Government has embarked on an ambitious programme of civic renewal to improve community cohesion and that the notion of civic death undermines this agenda by excluding those who are already on the margins of society and encouraging them to be seen as alien to the communities to which they will return to live; and therefore calls upon Her Majesty's Government to review the merits of the ban.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Mark Oaten	01/03/2004	Winchester	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Lynne Jones	02/03/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Peter Bottomley	02/03/2004	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Harry Barnes	02/03/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	02/03/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	02/03/2004	Gower	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	02/03/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	02/03/2004	Islington North	Labour	Signed
John Austin	03/03/2004	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed
Jane Griffiths	03/03/2004	Reading East	Labour	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	03/03/2004	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	03/03/2004	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Alice Mahon	03/03/2004	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	03/03/2004	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	04/03/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Paul Marsden	04/03/2004	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Huw Edwards	04/03/2004	Monmouth	Labour	Signed
Paul Tyler	04/03/2004	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nick Harvey	08/03/2004	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	08/03/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	08/03/2004	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	09/03/2004	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Vincent Cable	10/03/2004	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Patsy Calton	12/03/2004	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Hughes	16/03/2004	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
George Mudie	16/03/2004	Leeds East	Labour	Signed
Tom Brake	16/03/2004	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vera Baird	17/03/2004	Redcar	Labour	Signed
Jenny Tonge	22/03/2004	Richmond Park	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Kevin McNamara	25/03/2004	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
Mike Wood	25/03/2004	Batley & Spen	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	26/03/2004	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	31/03/2004	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Paul Holmes	05/05/2004	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Lamb	06/05/2004	North Norfolk	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Cotter	06/05/2004	Weston-Super-Mare	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Matthew Green	06/05/2004	Ludlow	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Don Foster	10/05/2004	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sandra Gidley	10/05/2004	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sarah Teather	10/05/2004	Brent East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Baker	11/05/2004	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	10/06/2004	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lembit	21/06/2004	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed

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