1. Parliamentary inquiry issues report
2. House of Lords PQ on asylum support, 24 January 2012
3. RCGP Position Statement
4. ECRE/AIDA project Continue reading “Friday 8 February 2013”
ASYLUM SUPPORT RATES Early day motion 1019
Ask your MP to sign EDM 1019:
- Session: 2012-13
- Date tabled: 05.02.2013
- Primary sponsor: Teather, Sarah
- Sponsors: Bottomley, Peter Corbyn, Jeremy Dobbin, Jim Durkan, Mark Sharma, Virendra
That this House believes that Britain can rightly be proud of its history of welcoming those fleeing persecution and war; welcomes the cross-party parliamentary report on asylum support for children and families; notes with concern the finding of that report that current asylum support levels are leaving up to 10,000 children destitute or in severe poverty; further believes that section 4 support rates are especially austere and that cashless payments impose damaging restrictions on how families buy essential items; further notes that asylum support rates have not been increased since April 2011; regrets that the previous Government broke the historic link between support rates for asylum seekers and income support; calls on the Government to increase asylum support rates so that they are at least equal to 70 per cent of income support and to up-rate support rates annually; and further calls on the Government to abolish section 4 support and implement a single cash-based support system.