Refugees and Migrants (Search and Rescue Operation)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Electoral Commission Committee – in the House of Commons at 10:32 am on 30 October 2014.

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Photo of Mark Pritchard Mark Pritchard Conservative, The Wrekin 10:32, 30 October 2014

I congratulate the Government on reducing the push factors that drive a lot of immigrants to Europe, by our expenditure through the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to improve governance in Africa, but may I also challenge the Minister? Does he believe that the evil people traffickers are likely to issue a press release saying, “If you make this journey in future, you are unlikely to be rescued”? Further to the point made by Diana Johnson from the Opposition Front Bench, does the Minister share my concern that there might be an international lawsuit against this country and possibly Europe through the UN convention on the law of the sea and the International Maritime Organisation sea regulations? The IMO is the only UN body, and it is based just 1 mile from Parliament.