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Desmond Swayne Excerpts
Tuesday 4th December 2018

(5 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Harriett Baldwin Portrait Harriett Baldwin
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I am glad that the hon. Lady welcomes the UK’s role, and I assure her that the UK has been fully engaged throughout the whole process since the United Nations agreed to move forward on this issue. We have been working on the wording and the direction of travel, to make sure that it is an agreement that can work for the whole world.

Desmond Swayne Portrait Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)
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Exactly what are we signing up to at Marrakesh?

Harriett Baldwin Portrait Harriett Baldwin
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We are signing up to the global compact on refugees. I should clarify for the House that it is a different document from the one that has perhaps generated more controversy: the global compact on migration.[Official Report, 5 December 2018, Vol. 650, c. 9MC.]