ZIMBABWEAN REFUGEES

Early day motion 660, tabled 9 January 2008 by Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 53 members.

That this House is concerned by the plight of Zimbabwean refugees who are reduced to begging on the street by an asylum system that does not recognise the dangers of returning them to Zimbabwe; notes the Tenth Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and deplores the enforced destitution reported within it as occurring to those failed asylum seekers who rightly fear for their safety upon return to their country of origin; and urges the Government to take the applications of Zimbabwean refugees more seriously.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 31, Labour 10, Plaid Cymru 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Conservative 2, Scottish National Party 2, DUP 1, Independent 1.