Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill | Overseas Voters (15 Year Rule) | Commons debates

I confess that I am by no means convinced of the legality of what is being suggested under temporary exclusion orders, which will, no doubt, be known in due course as TEOs, given our enthusiasm for acronyms. What is the position of someone who declines to accept conditions of return and who is not subject to deportation by the country in which they temporarily finds themselves? Are they not de facto stateless in such circumstances?

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Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill | Overseas Voters (15 Year Rule) | Commons debates

I confess that I am by no means convinced of the legality of what is being suggested under temporary exclusion orders, which will, no doubt, be known in due course as TEOs, given our enthusiasm for acronyms. What is the position of someone who declines to accept conditions of return and who is not subject to deportation by the country in which they temporarily finds themselves? Are they not de facto stateless in such circumstances?

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Ebola In Sierra Leone And The Armed Forces

Menzies Campbell has signed EDM441. Motion reads: "That this House is aware of the outstanding role being played by members of Britain's armed forces, in particular soldiers from the Royal Army Medical Corps operating in Sierra Leone as part of the UK's response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, who are helping train local people to tackle this terrifying disease; and notes that so far their missions have managed to build a treatment facility in Kerry Town involving hundreds of tonnes of equipment, provided vehicles to move patients and staff around the affected areas, established a facility medical centre housing blood banks, plasma freezers, centrifuges and safety handling uniforms and also engaged military staff to act with medical experts to help fight the outbreak."
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Service Personnel

Menzies Campbell has signed EDM442. Motion reads: "That this House recognises the sacrifice of 453 service personnel who gave their lives in Afghanistan and the 616 who were injured; further recognises that Afghanistan is a better place today after the 13 years of the British Army campaign and assures the Afghan people of its continued support as they pursue the democratic process; and further assures all of the families of those who died and were injured in Afghanistan of the UK's continued support."
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Turkey | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | Written Answers

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the government of Turkey regarding their support for the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Kobane.

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