Notice of Motions
Full council, 17 October 2022: a named vote on the motion, carried.
For 13, Against 0, Abstained 0.
Party in overall control of the council on the date: Conservative. Each councillor's party is the one the council recorded for them at the time.
Only one side of this vote could be read from the minutes. The others may be recorded in a form that couldn't be read, or not at all.
For (13)
- Brendon Bernard (Liberal Democrats)
- Chris Brown (Liberal Democrats)
- Dan Burrill (Liberal Democrats)
- Ian Spratt (Liberal Democrats)
- John Amis (Liberal Democrats)
- Julian Halls (Liberal Democrats)
- Libby Glover (Liberal Democrats)
- Sharon Blundell (Liberal Democrats)
- Suzanne Nuri-Nixon (Liberal Democrats)
- Terry Laidlaw (Liberal Democrats)
- Clayton Hudson (Independent)
- Josh Worley (Independent)
- Jeremy Rowe (Labour)
From the minutes
es before claiming asylum in the UK. He agreed with the principle that if a person came to the UK illegally they should be treated differently from someone who had come via a legal route and he would vote against the motion. Cllr T Laidlaw explained that he would support the motion and suggested that some migrants simply wanted to live in a constitutional democracy and should be respected for this. Cllr Brown acknowledged that this was a complex issue. He reiterated that migrants were being held in large accommodation centres and that 400 organisations were opposed to the Act. He also noted that the UK took in fewer migrants than most other European nations and that legal routes should be opened up for migration to help develop and grow the economy. A recorded vote was then conducted as follows: Cllrs Amis, Bernard, Blundell, Brown, Burrill, Glover, Halls, Hudson, Laidlaw, Nuri-Nixon, Rowe, Spratt and Worley voted for the motion Cllrs Bills, Dearnley, Dewsbury, Duffin, Easter, Elliott, Ellis, Francis, Fuller, Hardy, Hornby, Hurn, Kemp, Kiddie, Knight, Legg, Mason Billig, Minsh
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