Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Labour MP for Clapham & Brixton Hill

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Early Day Motion 809: LGBTQI+ People in Immigration Detention

Feb 24, 2025 | Parliamentary Work

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I have tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) regarding the treatment of LGBTQI+ people in immigration detention. It’s important for the government to recognise the heightened harassment, abuse and violence that LGBTQI+ people are subjected to in this setting and take action to prevent this. We need to move towards community-based alternatives to holding people in immigration detention, which is a cruel and costly practice.

That this House welcomes the ongoing review of the Home Office's Adults at risk in immigration detention policy; notes that LGBTQI+ people face heightened levels of harassment, discrimination, abuse, and physical and sexual violence in immigration detention; recognises that the bullying of and discrimination against LGBTQI+ people in detention can re-traumatise those who have fled persecution; believes that immigration detention is costly and punitive, and that cheaper and more humane alternatives to detention exist; further welcomes the community-based Alternative to Detention pilots undertaken by the Home Office and supports their wider expansion; calls on the Government to include being gay, lesbian, bisexual or queer in the Adults at risk in immigration detention policies indicators of risk and to remove the categorisation of vulnerability based on evidence levels; and supports the greater use of community-based alternatives to detention.

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