Oral Answers to Questions

Jim Dickson Excerpts

Tuesday 2nd December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Sarah Green (Chesham and Amersham) (LD)]

7. What diplomatic steps her Department is taking to support Ukraine.

[Jim Dickson (Dartford) (Lab)]

18. What steps her Department is taking to support Ukraine.

[John Milne (Horsham) (LD)]

19. What assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of US foreign policy on Ukraine.

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[Yvette Cooper]

Children kidnapped and stolen from Ukraine need to be returned to their families and to their country—that is essential. It must happen, and it is unconditional on anything else. The UK is continuing to support Ukraine and other countries in the work of tracing and identifying where children are, which includes direct work that has helped to identify the locations of 600 stolen children.

[Jim Dickson]

I thank the Secretary of State for her answer and, in particular, the UK Government’s continued excellent work to marshal the coalition of the willing in support of Ukraine. Does she agree that in any future peace agreement key Ukrainian red lines need to be defended: the preservation of Ukraine; that key parts of the Donbas are not under Russian control; that there are no Russian-imposed limits on Ukrainian armed forces; and freedom of Ukraine to join NATO?

[Yvette Cooper]

We have been clear throughout that, first and foremost, the future of Ukraine is for Ukrainians to decide. That means, as the Prime Minister said last week, that borders should not be changed by force. There must also be a sustainable peace, and not just an opportunity for Putin to pause and then come again. That would be a threat not just to the security of Ukraine, but to the security of Europe.