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Tuesday, November 30, 2004 

Robert Kilroy-Silk Press Release

KILROY-SILK TO POLICE, EDUCATION, SOCIAL SERVICES AND HEALTH: “TELL ME WHAT IMPACT THE DISPERSAL OF ASYLUM-SEEKERS IS HAVING IN YOUR AREA”

Robert Kilroy-Silk, Independent M.E.P. for the East Midlands, has today written to the Chief Constables, the Directors of Education and Social Services and the Chairmen of Regional Health Authorities in eight authorities across the country where local communities have been under severe pressure from asylum-seekers. The authorities include Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in his East Midlands constituency. The others are: Burnley, Nelson and Bootle in Lancashire, Manchester, Doncaster and Swansea. His letters follow a recent House of Lords written answer by Baroness Scotland of Asthal revealing that the Chief Constables of these areas had demanded, and secured, bans on further dispersals of asylum-seekers to their areas.

Mr Kilroy-Silk said: “I first became aware of the scale of this problem when I read about a leaked Home Office report highlighting a startling degree of disruption caused by asylum-seekers being dispersed to the city of Peterborough. There were reports of severe pressures on local Social Services, health and schools. And Peterborough saw five days of rioting in May this year, between four of the different ethnic groups in the city.

“Now that eight police forces have called for a ban on further asylum-seekers being dispersed to their areas, it is clear that the problem is on a much bigger scale than I realised. I want to know what pressures the Police and other departments are under for the Chief Constables of these areas to feel it necessary to take this extraordinary action. I have therefore today written to ask the Chief Constables and the Directors of Health, Education and Social Services in each area to let me have detailed reports on how asylum-seekers have been adversely affecting local communities, including the impact on policing, on race relations, health and social services, and schools. We need to know what is the problem - and who is being affected by it.

“No-one has asked these local communities whether they consent to large numbers of asylum-seekers being imposed upon them. They have not been consulted. They have not had a vote on the issue. Yet the quality of their lives and of the local services they use is being profoundly affected. If local communities are suffering under the burdens caused by the influx of asylum-seekers, then it is clear that the policy on asylum-seekers will have to change”. In September, Mr Kilroy-Silk made a major speech calling for annual immigration to be limited to 100,000 a year, to bring it into approximate balance with the 91,000 who emigrated from Britain last year.

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