Rwanda Bill: How did my MP vote on Sunak’s asylum legislation?

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Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda Bill will become law after an evening of parliamentary ping-pong between the House of Commons and the Lords.

MPs and Lords clashed on Monday evening over a peer amendment to Rwanda’s Security (Asylum and Immigration) Bill. Peers finally conceded to Lord Anderson of Ipswich, saying: “The time has now come to recognize the primacy of the elected house.”

Downing Street had warned it would make no concessions on the amendments, with colleagues demanding that an independent monitoring committee must declare Rwanda safe before asylum seekers can be sent there. Peers agreed to a separate amendment calling for Afghans serving in the British forces to be exempted from deportations.

It came after Mr Sunak claimed flights to Rwanda had been booked and would depart in July, “no ifs, no buts”, despite his difficulty in translating the necessary legislation into law and a host of remaining practical barriers to physical implementation of the policy. .

Mr Sunak told a surprise No 10 press conference on Monday that the first flight carrying asylum seekers would leave for Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks, hours before the bill was due to come before parliamentarians again.

Peers had repeatedly blocked the legislation with a series of amendments, stretching out the debate on the “emergency legislation” for more than four months and delaying flights taking asylum seekers to Rwanda.

You can use the tool below to find out how your MP voted on the legislation:

If your MP is listed as ‘yes’, he voted for the Rwanda bill, and if he is listed as ‘no’, he voted against.