Migration and Economic Development Partnership with Rwanda

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:51 pm on 15 June 2022.

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Photo of Paula Barker Paula Barker Labour, Liverpool, Wavertree 12:51, 15 June 2022

It is fascinating that the Home Secretary talks endlessly about refugees travelling from France when it is such a safe country. The memorandum of understanding that the Home Secretary signed makes it clear that the UK will settle some of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees and the Home Office has briefed that that could be up to 50 people. When will those refugees be arriving in Britain and, more importantly, on the basis of the Home Secretary’s argument, why do they need to when Rwanda is such a safe country?