Extract from Westminster Hall debate on the Easter Adjournment - Mar 30

Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab):...Volunteers at the Sanctuary Project are dismayed by the Illegal Migration Bill. I also had lots of letters about it this week from year 5 pupils at Lliswerry Primary School in Newport, who are fundraising for the Sanctuary Project. It was disappointing that the Government voted down the amendments to the Bill this week, including the amendments on improving support for victims of modern slavery, removing the Home Secretary’s power to detain and remove unaccompanied children, and the creation of a new National Crime Agency unit to crack down on the smuggler gangs. I hope that the Government will think again in the Bill’s remaining stages...