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LABOUR MP Claudia Webbe is leading fresh calls for the government to scrap its cruel policy that allows people to be deported for being homeless.
Under immigration rules that came into effect on December 1, rough sleeping can be grounds to refuse or cancel someone’s permission to be in the country.
The Home Office has stressed that the policy will only be used “sparingly,” but an early day motion tabled by Ms Webbe expresses concern that the scope of grounds to refuse someone’s stay is “very broad.”
The motion, backed by a wide range of cross-party MPs including former Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, the Green Party’s Caroline Lucas and Labour MP Diane Abbott, also expresses alarm “that those rules do not include protections for people who are illegally evicted from private properties.”
Ms Webbe said: “The government must revoke the discriminatory new immigration rule and set in place a plan to permanently eradicate rough sleeping.”
The policy has been widely condemned, with several local councils pledging to refuse to work with the department to facilitate returns.
