Part of Backbench Business – in Westminster Hall at 2:29 pm on 13 November 2025.
Jim Shannon
DUP, Strangford
2:29,
13 November 2025
I welcome all the things that the Minister refers to—they are good steps forward, and that is what I would expect—but we have all mentioned that the young children in the brick kilns are not even getting educated. Some 80% of them have no education whatsoever. How will the Government target that issue? Andrew Rosindell referred, as possibilities, to more inspections in the brick kilns and more work with the NGOs. I welcome everything that the Minister has said, but those are the key issues.
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