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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 22 Feb 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"9. At DFID questions on 11 January, the Secretary of State told my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow North (Patrick Grady) that her Department was actively pursuing the possible use of drones to drop emergency aid in Syria. Will she update the House on what progress has been made …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Mar 2016
Humanitarian Crisis: Greece

"We certainly welcome the financial commitments that the UK Government have announced and are already providing. I echo the calls for the rest of the international community to match those commitments, but the fact is that no amount of money will ever provide enough schools, hospitals and homes to enable …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Dec 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"21. What recent progress has been made on the proposed Edinburgh city deal...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 14 Dec 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Despite the obvious wealth that exists in some parts of Edinburgh and south-east Scotland, there are also significant areas of very severe deprivation. Some 21% of children in the proposed city region live in poverty just now. The economy of the area has not been helped over the past few …..."
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Written Question
Syria: Refugees
Tuesday 27th October 2015

Asked by: Peter Grant (Scottish National Party - Glenrothes)

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which countries in the Middle East and North Africa her Department has assessed as able to provide safe refuge and access to essential services to refugees from Syria; and what estimate she has made of how many such refugees each of those countries could accommodate.

Answered by Desmond Swayne

The countries in the Middle East assessed as able to provide safety and access to essential services are those where we currently support the host Governments to provide refuge: Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. The UK is also monitoring the treatment of Syrian refugees who have arrived in small numbers in Egypt and other part of North Africa.

The UK has been at the forefront of the response to the crisis in Syria and the region. The UK has pledged over £1.1 billion, our largest ever response to a single humanitarian crisis. Of this, we have allocated £559 million to support refugees in the region, including £304 million in Lebanon, £193 million in Jordan and the remainder across the region.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 19 Oct 2015
Immigration

"Does the hon. Gentleman intend during his allotted time to refer to the majority of immigrants to the United Kingdom who are not Muslims? Does he intend to use the opportunity to talk about the positive benefits that migration gives and will continue to give to the United Kingdom, rather …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 19 Oct 2015
Immigration

"If we have a petition signed by a significant number of, presumably, genuine people that is based on utterly untrue statements, would it not be better to bring the petition in here and to allow the Government to tackle it head-on and say, “This petition is based on untrue statements”, …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 19 Oct 2015
Immigration

"This is one of those occasions when I am pleased to get the chance to speak but wish it was in significantly different circumstances. I agree that we need to have a rational debate about immigration, but it is impossible to have one based on the petition submitted to us. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 19 Oct 2015
Immigration

"I think the contradiction is between the hon. Gentleman’s comments and the fundraising mugs that his party was selling during the election with the slogan, “Controls on immigration.” As soon as one starts to play the anti-immigration line in the context of anti-immigration political parties—one such political party has been …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 19 Oct 2015
Immigration

"I am sorry if I am not making the point clearly enough, but by conducting the debate on the terms of UKIP and those even more extreme than UKIP, it allows people like the gentleman who started the petition to believe that they are in the ascendancy and on the …..."
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