Humanitarian Crisis: Greece

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:20 pm on 2 March 2016.

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Photo of Justine Greening Justine Greening The Secretary of State for International Development 1:20, 2 March 2016

The right hon. Gentleman will see that on the Treasury Bench with me is the Minister for Immigration, my right hon. Friend James Brokenshire, who I am sure will respond to his point on progress in tackling organised criminal gangs. Our National Crime Agency works very closely with Europol. He will be aware that we also played our role in saving lives in the Mediterranean with Royal Navy and Border Force cutters. The €3 billion has now been agreed. In fact, we managed to agree it in time for the London conference, which again was a step forward. The key is making sure that it is delivered and that the strategy behind how it is invested is strong. That needs to involve not just the day-to-day support for refugees who Turkey is very generously hosting—we should remember that Turkey has taken in 2 million refugees—but getting children back into school and progress on effective border control. The package now in place needs to be very carefully delivered not only by the EU, but by Turkey itself in terms of how it uses that investment.