Nationality and Borders Bill — After Clause 37 — Immigration Rules: Entry to seek Asylum And Join Family — 20 Apr 2022 at 17:48
The majority of MPs voted against UK law allowing entry to the UK to seek asylum and against UK law enabling unaccompanied children in Europe who have a family member in the UK to seek asylum in the UK.
MPs were considering the Nationality and Borders Bill.[1][2][3]
The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
- That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 10B.
Lords amendment 10B stated:[4]
- Insert the following new Clause—
- “Immigration Rules: entry to seek asylum and join family
- (1) The rules laid down by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 1(4) and section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 for regulating the entry into and stay in the United Kingdom of persons not having the right of abode must include provision for admitting persons coming for the purpose of seeking asylum.
- (2) These rules must make provision, for the purpose of seeking asylum, for unaccompanied children in Europe who have a family member in the United Kingdom who is ordinarily and lawfully resident in the United Kingdom.
- (3) For the purposes of this section, a “family member” means—
- (a) a parent, including adoptive parent;
- (b) an aunt or uncle;
- (c) a grandparent;
- (d) a sibling, including an adoptive sibling; or
- (e) such other persons as the Secretary of State may determine, having regard to—
- (i) the importance of maintaining family unity;
- (ii) any dependency between the family members;
- (iii) the best interests of a child; and
- (iv) any compelling circumstances.
UK law is specified in the summary as legality can be claimed on the basis of international agreements as well as on the basis of domestic law. Referring to "The Immigration Rules" might be misleading as it may not be obvious or intuitive to the reader that these amount to the law.
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- [1] Parliament's webpage on the Nationality and Borders Bill, Parliament.uk
- [2] Nationality and Borders Bill, as brought to the House of Lords, from the Commons, on 9 December 2021, Parliament.uk
- [3] Explanatory notes to the Nationality and Borders Bill, as brought to the House of Lords, from the Commons, on 9 December 2021, Parliament.uk
- [4] Lords Message in connection with the Nationality and Borders Bill on 5 April 2022, Parliament.uk
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
| Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
| Alba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Alliance | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Con | 303 (+2 tell) | 5 | 0 | 85.6% |
| DUP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 37.5% |
| Green | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 0 | 4 | 0 | 80.0% |
| Lab | 0 | 162 (+2 tell) | 0 | 82.0% |
| LDem | 0 | 11 | 0 | 84.6% |
| PC | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SDLP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 0 | 42 | 0 | 93.3% |
| Total: | 303 | 235 | 0 | 84.4% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote
| Name | Constituency | Party | Vote |
| Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | no |
| Simon Hoare | North Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
| Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | no |
| Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | no |
| Andrew Mitchell | Sutton Coldfield | Con | no |