Asylum Seekers

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 7:26 pm on 12 April 2000.

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Photo of Julian Brazier Julian Brazier Conservative, Canterbury 7:26, 12 April 2000

The Home Secretary has been generous in giving way. While he is talking about whose responsibility the asylum seekers are, will he answer the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury, as well as in an early-day motion signed by several Labour Members who are now in the Chamber, that secure race relations in this country must be on the basis of central Government taking full financial responsibility for asylum seekers rather than leaving it to a few local authorities?