Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Support for Asylum Seekers - Apr 27

Wednesday, 28 April 2021 08:34

Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark) (Lab):...I thank everyone for contributing to the debate and the Backbench Business Committee for granting it. What we are seeing is a poverty of ambition from this Government, with aid cuts and Army cuts that reduce our ability to intervene abroad to prevent the creation of asylum seekers in the first place. There is no ambition to end the backlog and delays in decision making for those who are already here, no ambition to end hotel use, leaving...Request free trial