Asylum
The asylum system is intended to protect people fleeing persecution in their own countries. Parliament has voted on subjects including: routes via which people may enter the United Kingdom to seek asylum; the circumstances in which those seeking asylum may work; support for those seeking asylum and if to allow those claiming asylum to be removed to other countries while their claim is assessed.
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Maria Eagle generally voted against a stricter asylum system
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On 17 Ion 2024:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill Committee: Third reading
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On 26 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to be more lenient when assessing if a refugee had "come to the United Kingdom directly from a country or territory where their life or freedom was threatened" and "presented themselves without delay to the authorities", to put the onus of proof on the Government, and to give due weight to the best interests of children and family unity, in relation to such determinations, and to require the law to ensure refugees should not be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom.
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On 20 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to allow those seeking asylum, and their adult dependents, to work if a decision on their application has not been made within six months.
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On 20 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to prevent anyone from being removed from, or required to leave, the UK while their asylum application is pending.
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On 20 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio for UK law to allow 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.
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On 20 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against creating an offence of entering the United Kingdom without a valid entry clearance (if one is required), and in favour of creating an alternative narrower offence of arriving in the United Kingdom in breach of a deportation order.
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On 20 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio not to make it an offence to help an asylum-seeker enter the UK even where that help is provided "for gain" and not to make it an offence to help an asylum-seeker if there is a "reasonable excuse" for helping.
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio not to permit treating refugees who have not "come to the United Kingdom directly from a country or territory where their life or freedom was threatened" and "presented themselves without delay to the authorities" differently from those who have.
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to allow "asylum seekers and their adult dependents, including failed asylum seekers who have raised further submissions, to work on the same terms as a person with refugee status if a decision on their claim has not been determined within six months".
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio forbid removing someone from the UK, even to a safe third country, whilst their asylum claim is pending.
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to allow people to enter the United Kingdom to seek asylum if they are coming from Europe and have a family member living lawfully in the UK.
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio not to make it an offence to knowingly arrive in the United Kingdom without a valid entry clearance, if such a clearance is required.
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio not to consider asylum seekers who fail, when requested, to provide information relating to them being a victim of slavery or trafficking within a set time-limit, to have reduced credibility.
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to raise the threshold for denying an individual the 30-day recovery period for victims, or potential victims of slavery or trafficking, during which they cannot be removed from the United Kingdom, and to prevent those under 18 years ever being denied the recovery period.
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On 8 Rha 2021:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against a series of changes to the law on immigration and nationality, against permitting the removal of asylum seekers with applications pending to other countries and against provisions aimed at discouraging unsafe and dangerous routes of entry.
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On 7 Rha 2021:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to exempt those facing persecution in their own countries, and others in need of international protection, from a new offence of arriving in the UK without a valid entry clearance.
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On 20 Gor 2021:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against a series of changes to the law on immigration and nationality, against permitting the removal of asylum seekers with applications pending to other countries and against provisions aimed at discouraging unsafe and dangerous routes of entry.
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On 20 Gor 2021:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against a series of changes to the law on immigration and nationality, against permitting the removal of asylum seekers with applications pending to other countries and against provisions aimed at discouraging unsafe and dangerous routes of entry.
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On 19 Hyd 2020:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to allow those in the EU who wish to make a claim for asylum in the UK, and who would have been eligible for transfer to the UK under EU regulations, to enter the UK to make their claim.
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On 30 Meh 2020:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to retain rights for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, spouses, vulnerable adults and dependant adults to join a family member who is legally present in the United Kingdom.
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On 22 Ion 2020:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to require ministers to seek to negotiate with the EU to allow unaccompanied children seeking asylum to join their relatives by moving from the UK to the EU or vice-versa, and voted against merely requiring the Government to set out its policy on this subject.
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On 8 Ion 2020:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to retain a requirement for ministers to seek to negotiate an agreement with the EU to enable unaccompanied child refugees to join their relatives.
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On 25 Ebr 2016:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on Immigration Bill — Asylum Seekers: Permission to Work after Six Months
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On 14 Rha 2015:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on European Union Documents — Relocation of Migrants in need of International Protection
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On 1 Rha 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against restricting the support available to failed asylum seekers and illegal migrants.
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On 16 Tach 2005:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill — Third Reading
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On 1 Maw 2004:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Burden of proof on prosecution rather than defendant in cases where immigrants to not have travel documents — rejected
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On 1 Maw 2004:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Give support to failed asylum seekers and their families — rejected
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On 1 Maw 2004:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Asylum appeals should be referred to a higher court — rejected
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On 1 Maw 2004:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Give support to asylum seekers even when they make a late claim — rejected
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On 1 Maw 2004:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill — Third Reading
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On 17 Rha 2003:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill — Decline to give a Second Reading — rejected
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On 17 Rha 2003:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill — Second Reading
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On 12 Meh 2002:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Allow the withdrawal of support from immigrants and asylum seekers in certain circumstances
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On 12 Meh 2002:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Do not penalise those who bring passengers to the UK without the necessary authority — rejected
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On 12 Meh 2002:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Third Reading
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On 11 Meh 2002:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Only allow destitute asylum seekers and those under residence restrictions to live in accommodation centres for a maximum of 10 weeks — rejected
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On 11 Meh 2002:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Do not allow appeals against rejected asylum claims from within the UK if the claim is unfounded
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On 18 Mai 2022:
Maria Eagle was absent for a vote on Programme for Government — Amendment from the Leader of the Liberal Democrats
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On 26 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to require that, so far as possible under new asylum laws, no refugees will be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom and to require a court or tribunal breaching that principle to make a declaration to that effect.
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On 20 Ebr 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to explicitly require that no refugees will be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom as a result of the operation of new asylum laws.
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio to explicitly require that no refugees will be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom as a result of the operation of new asylum laws.
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On 22 Maw 2022:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio for the resettlement, in the United Kingdom, of at least 10,000 refugees per year.
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On 1 Rha 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against making it a criminal offence for someone to work if their immigration status prohibits it.
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On 1 Rha 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against making it an offence to rent a home to someone who is disqualified as a result of their immigration status from occupying premises under a residential tenancy agreement.
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On 1 Rha 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against extending the power to deport an individual before considering an appeal on human rights grounds so it applies to all those appealing on human rights grounds against their removal.
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On 1 Rha 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against creating criminal offences of renting a home, driving, and working, while disqualified from doing so due to immigration status; and against other measures in the Immigration Bill.
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On 13 Hyd 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against creating criminal offences of renting a home, driving, and working, while disqualified from doing so due to immigration status; and against other measures in the Immigration Bill
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On 13 Hyd 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio against creating criminal offences of renting a home, driving, and working, while disqualified from doing so due to immigration status; and against other measures in the Immigration Bill.
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On 9 Med 2015:
Maria Eagle wedi pleidleisio for greater international efforts through the United Nations to secure the position of refugees across the Middle East and in favour of the UK playing a full role, with others, in providing sanctuary.
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On 25 Gor 2007:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar The Asylum (Designated States) Order 2007
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On 29 Maw 2006:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill — Allow failed asylum seekers to be given cash rather than vouchers — rejected
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On 16 Tach 2005:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill — Prevent the government from interpreting the Geneva Convention so that terrorism can be used as grounds to dismiss asylum claims — rejected
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On 16 Tach 2005:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill — Excuse employers who employed illegal immigrants but took reasonable steps to comply with the necessary requirements — rejected
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On 16 Gor 2003:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Asylum (Designated States) (No. 2) Order 2003
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On 17 Maw 2003:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Asylum (Designated States) Order 2003
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On 5 Tach 2002:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Asylum seekers can be placed in accommodation centres even if there is no local school pace for dependent children
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On 5 Tach 2002:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio yes ar Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Refuse support to asylum seekers who make a late claim
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On 11 Meh 2002:
Maria Eagle Fe wnaeth pleidleisio no ar Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — Allow earlier rights of appeal — rejected
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