Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat), on Tuesday, 5 February 2013, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 41 members in total.

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ASYLUM SUPPORT RATES

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.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1019 

Session

2012-13

Other sponsors

Jim Dobbin

Peter Bottomley

Jeremy Corbyn

Mark Durkan

Virendra Sharma

Subjects

Asylum Poverty Social security benefits

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk