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Removal Of Appeal Rights For Immigrants And Asylum-Seekers

EDM number 1096 in 2005-06, proposed by Peter Bottomley on 23/11/2005.

That this House shares the concern expressed by the Immigration Advisory Service that the forthcoming Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill will result in lawful immigrants whose applications for a variation of their leave have been rejected being classified as illegal overstayers; regrets that students and migrant workers may lose their right of appeal, despite the fact that a large proportion, 20 per cent. in 2003, of initial decisions on claims are later found to be wrong and are overturned under the current system; does not accept the Home Office's claim that the essential rights of the appellant will be retained under the proposed system; and believes, as the Right honourable Member for Sedgefield did when he was shadow Home Secretary, that immigration officers work more carefully knowing their work is subject to review and that it would be wrong to remove the right of appeal purely for reasons of administrative convenience.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Peter Bottomley23/11/2005Worthing WestConservativeProposed
Michael Penning23/11/2005Hemel HempsteadConservativeSeconded
Lynne Jones24/11/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn28/11/2005Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Hywel Williams28/11/2005CaernarfonPlaid CymruSeconded
John McDonnell28/11/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Diane Abbott29/11/2005Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
John Leech29/11/2005Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Helen Goodman30/11/2005Bishop AucklandLabourSigned
Robert Wareing30/11/2005Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Mark Durkan30/11/2005FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Alan Simpson30/11/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Adam Price30/11/2005Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Elfyn Llwyd01/12/2005Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Harry Cohen01/12/2005Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
David Drew01/12/2005StroudLabourSigned
John Hemming01/12/2005Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Williams01/12/2005Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable02/12/2005TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham05/12/2005Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell05/12/2005Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Tim Farron05/12/2005Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell07/12/2005Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Nick Harvey15/12/2005North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
George Galloway09/01/2006Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned

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