Extracts Parliamentary proceedings - Nov 2
Friday, 3 November 2017 06:53
Extract from Lords debate on Calais: Refugees Baroness
Berridge (Con):...In July, after much parliamentary lobbying,
the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme was
expanded to allow non-Syrian nationals such as Yazidis to be
selected to come to the UK. Despite much lobbying, inclusion in the
scheme’s vulnerability criteria, set by the UK and given to UNHCR
to apply, of religious identity or being at risk of religious
persecution has been rejected... To read the whole...Request free trial
Extract from Lords debate
on Calais: Refugees
(Con):...In
July, after much parliamentary lobbying, the Syrian
Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme was
expanded to allow non-Syrian nationals such as Yazidis to be
selected to come to the UK. Despite much lobbying, inclusion in the
scheme’s vulnerability criteria, set by the UK and given to UNHCR
to apply, of religious identity or being at risk of religious
persecution has been rejected...
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Extract from Commons
debate on Unaccompanied Child Refugees: Europe
(Edinburgh South West)
(SNP):...As my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow East
(David Linden) said, SNP policy is clear: we want the Dubs scheme
to continue to enable the UK to receive at least the 3,000
unaccompanied children that this House had in mind when the
amendment was accepted. We also want the UK Government to increase
the total number of refugees that they intend to take under
the Syrian
Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme, by taking
people from camps closer to their homes. We also want the UK
Government to do their bit by providing better arrangements on the
ground, so that there can be outreach to child refugees who arrive
in Calais and Grande-Synthe, and proper outreach on the ground for
children in Greece and Italy who have a right to come to the United
Kingdom...
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