Here are the 18 Conservative backbenchers sponsoring an amendment to the Government’s Immigration Bill, which is currently being debated in Parliament, giving the Home Secretary power to ban anyone from receiving permission to stay or settle in the UK if they carry a “prescribed pathogen” including HIV, Hepatitis B or “such other pathogens as the Secretary of State may prescribe”.

They are:

Phillip Lee (Con Bracknel)

Stephen Phillips (Con Sleaford and North Hykeham)

Stephen Barclay (Con North East Cambridgeshire)

Tracey Crouch (Con Chatham and Aylesford)

Dominic Raab (Con Esher and Walton)

Graham Brady (Con Altrincham and Sale West)

Charlotte Leslie (Con Bristol North West)

Mark Field (Con Cities of London and Westminster)

Nigel Mills (Con Amber Valley)

Jonathan Djanogly (Con Huntingdon)

Chris Kelly (Con Dudley South)

Bob Blackman (Con Harrow East)

Jonathan Lord (Con Woking)

Craig Whittaker (Con Calder Valley)

Conor Burns (Con Bournemouth West)

Karl McCartney (Con Lincoln)

Sir Gerald Howarth (Con Aldershot)

Sarah Wollaston (Con Totnes)