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Following
Home Office Questions on the floor of the House of Commons
today, Peter Viggers, MP for the Gosport Constituency said
"It was clear from Ministers' answers today that the
Government is very actively pursuing the idea that polit6ical
asylum seekers should be screened outside the UK. This would
mean that accommodation centres such as that the Government
is considering at Daedalus in Lee-on-the-Solent would not
be required".
In
his question to Minister of State, Beverley Hughes, Peter
Viggers pointed out that large numbers of economic migrants
were claiming political asylum and making a mockery of immigration
rules. With targets for deporting immigrants being missed
or abandoned and with accommodation centres bitterly opposed
as witnessed by the 32,000-signature petition in Lee-on-the-Solent
area, it was quite obvious that the asylum process was not
working and could not be made to work. If the Government now
proposed to process asylum applications outside the UK as
suggested by the Conservatives two months ago, then, Peter
said, "we would not oppose but would welcome it".
Peter
added, "It is obvious that the Home Office is actively
considering a substantial change of policy and I welcome this.
We must continue to take every step to oppose the accommodation
centre at Daedalus".
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