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Patrick Grady

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Commons Financial Privilege
Wednesday 28th October 2015

(8 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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We will be using the UNHCR guidelines.

Patrick Grady Portrait Patrick Grady (Glasgow North) (SNP)
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I welcome the new Labour Front-Bench team and look forward to working with them on these important matters.

Does not the onset of winter and the challenges it brings highlight the importance of the UK playing a diplomatic role in resolving the crisis in Syria? Does the Minister agree that as winter sets in and families start to freeze, this is a situation where the Government should be prioritising bairns, not bombs?

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I agree entirely that we must bend every muscle to provide a settlement.

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