Here you can see a summary of my voting record and the most recent contributions I have made in the House of Commons, including oral and written questions, speeches and debates.
I also propose and support a wide range of important Early Day Motions, and take part in debates in Westminster Hall, and in All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) to work cross-party on a number of issues.
If you are a constituent, please get in touch if you would like more information about my work on any particular topic you care about, or if you would like me to take up an issue that will help you.
Contributions in the House:
- Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Amendment) Bill: Second Reading – Siân Berry. Private Members' Bills
- Siân Berry: Q Do you have routes through to the people affected so that you could ask about the Bill’s provisions?
- Siân Berry: Q I have a quick question on engagement. One thing that has come out of my own constituency work is that people making asylum applications are mainly successful in the end—sometimes when they get my help—but there are a lot of criticisms of the process, particularly in relation to access and the way […]
- Siân Berry: Q A few witnesses asked—as does some of the written evidence—for more information on the regulations that will follow the legislation to be published before we consider the relevant clauses of the Bill. I think that relates mainly to the definitions and criteria of protection status under clause 21, and to how destitution […]
- Siân Berry: Q I have a couple of questions that seek more information, so I will fire through those two to begin with. Madeleine Sumption and the Refugee Council told us that there is not full data on which human rights claims grounds are currently accepted, refused, appealed and then accepted, or refused on appeal. […]
- Siân Berry: Jacqui, you also raised something that I like, because it is Green party policy—though I should not be bringing that up here—which is breaking up the Home Office. In the discussions and the evidence we have heard, other people have said that it is a huge amount of work to set up the […]
- Siân Berry: Can I ask one final question, Ms Jardine? Are there more Members waiting?
- Siân Berry: The initial review. According to Sarah, it simply does not happen.Q
- Siân Berry: Q Sarah, you talked about the initial review process that should happen when an appeal is lodged. What more do you think could be done to improve that process?
- Siân Berry: Q Jacqueline, you mentioned the poor quality of decision making. The evidence from the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association offers multiple casework examples, and offers more such examples to the Committee if we wish to get them—and I think we should. Obviously, as an MP, I see many such decisions in person. What more […]
- Siân Berry: I have some questions about family reunion. In your submission, you said that the measure will have a negative impact on integration. You also expressed concern that what you consider to be a right to family reunion is being made conditional, in clause 19, on socioeconomic factors—the ability of someone to support themselves. […]
- Siân Berry: Q Going back to the impact of the repayments, I think you said that people can make claims for asylum support only if they are destitute, but that someone could be in this country and claiming asylum without claiming asylum support—it is not for everybody, and you do not have to claim it. […]
- Siân Berry: Thank you.
- Siân Berry: Q Could you come back to us on that? I am sure that there is analysis within the agency on that score.
- Siân Berry: Q To clarify, you say that the criminal investigation of the gangs is not in scope of the Bill. You have been asked to come today to testify about the potential of the Bill to reduce demand, so I think it is completely legitimate for us to ask you about your agency’s analysis […]
- Siân Berry: indicated assent.
- Siân Berry: Q You have come here to comment on legislation that is intended to reduce demand, so I thought that might be a legitimate question to ask.
- Siân Berry: Q The criminals are exploiting a market by acting in a criminal fashion. That market is potential asylum seekers—many of whom, as we heard from the previous panel, have a legitimate claim to be here. Do you know when and why demand occurred for that kind of journey, which the criminals exploit?
- Siân Berry: Q You look at the origins of the crimes, though, and the market that the criminals are exploiting.
- Siân Berry: Q On the way in which many refugees seek to reach this country to make asylum claims, what analysis has your agency done of the factors that led to a market for organised immigration crime? When did that increase in demand occur?
>> You can see my full list of contributions since I was elected via They Work For You
Voting record:
My voting record is available on the Parliament website here:
https://members.parliament.uk/member/5314/voting
Early Day Motions:
You can see which Early Day Motions I am supporting in the current Parliament here:
https://members.parliament.uk/member/5314/earlydaymotions
APPG officer roles:
I am currently Co-Chair of the APPG on Poverty and Inequality, Vice Chair of the City Regions Transport APPG, and an officer of the APPG on Eating Disorders and the Humanism APPG.