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Black, Minority Ethnic And Refugee Women And Domestic Violence

EDM number 2026 in 2006-07, proposed by Linda Riordan on 26/07/2007.

That this House notes that the Government has brought forward new legislation on domestic violence; draws attention to the acute under-funding of Black, Minority Ethnic and Refugee (BMER) Women's services; notes that research conducted by BMER women's organisations such as IMKAAN and Saheli reveals that many BMER services are facing closure, dangerously reducing BMER women's access to places of safety; further notes that women suffering from abuse and violence who do not have settled immigration status in the UK are prevented from seeking protection due to the no recourse to public funds requirement; believes that alternative safe housing, benefits and specialist services are often prerequisites to leaving an abusive relationship; calls upon the Government to acknowledge the value of small-sized grassroots specialist BMER women's projects such as Saheli, IMKAAN, Southall Black Sisters, The Asian Women's Resource Centre and African Women's Care, and to sustain investment in them; urges the Government to meet the demands made by IMKAAN and Southall Black Sisters and abolish the no recourse to public funds requirement for all women with insecure status who are subject to violence and abuse in the contexts or marriage, domestic work and trafficking; and further calls upon the Government to set up a national cross-governmental violence against women strategy and, within that, a strategy around the needs of BMER women.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Linda Riordan26/07/2007HalifaxLabourProposed
Dawn Butler26/07/2007Brent SouthLabourSeconded
Katy Clark26/07/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSeconded
Chris McCafferty26/07/2007Calder ValleyLabourSeconded
John McDonnell26/07/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Neil Gerrard26/07/2007WalthamstowLabourSeconded
Marsha Singh08/10/2007Bradford WestLabourSigned
Lynne Jones08/10/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster08/10/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Mike Hancock08/10/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer09/10/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
David Drew09/10/2007StroudLabourSigned
Jim Devine09/10/2007LivingstonLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell10/10/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Janet Dean10/10/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson10/10/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne11/10/2007Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Dai Davies11/10/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Elfyn Llwyd15/10/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Bill Etherington15/10/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Keith Vaz17/10/2007Leicester EastLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins18/10/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson22/10/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Jennifer Willott23/10/2007Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton24/10/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
Rudi Vis24/10/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Eric Illsley29/10/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn29/10/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Jo Swinson29/10/2007East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned

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