Please contact your MP to support :

Early Day Motion 2264: Living Ghosts Campaign

(promoted by Church Action on Poverty).

This will put pressure on the Government to change the policies that make people seeking asylum destitute.

CAP needs lots of MPs to support this so it shows how many people across the UK believe it is wrong, for people who have sought asylum and been refused, to be left destitute. Instead, if they are unable to return to their countries of origin or fear to do so, they should be able to sustain themselves either through work or basic state support.

The EDM shows Government ministers that this is an important issue for people everywhere in the UK.

Many MPs like EDMs because they are a specific, simple action they can take.

This EDM was tabled by John Battle MP, Labour.

How to do it:

1. Find out who your MP is and contact them directly through www.writetothem.com

2. Ask them to sign Early Day Motion 2264

• Find out more about the problems of destitution and the Living Ghosts campaign at www.church-poverty.org.uk/campaigns/LivingGhosts/

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=30805&SESSION=875

EDM 2264 LIVING GHOSTS CAMPAIGN 25.05.2006 Battle, John

That this House believes that the principle of `work for those who can, support for those who can't' should extend to everyone in the UK, including people seeking asylum; notes that thousands of people seeking asylum are ending up destitute rather than returning to poverty or persecution; supports Church Action on Poverty's Living Ghosts campaign, which aims to end the needless destitution of people seeking asylum; further believes that it is in the interest of the whole of UK society for people seeking asylum to be allowed to take paid employment while they are in this country or to be given National Asylum Support Services support if they are unable to work; and recognises that this would stop many people disappearing into destitution.