Oral Answers to Questions

Sarah Green Excerpts

Tuesday 2nd December 2025 Commons Chamber

[Sarah Dyke (Glastonbury and Somerton) (LD)]

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

[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.

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[Yvette Cooper]

As the hon. Lady will know, I and many other people have been involved in welcoming people as part of the Homes for Ukraine scheme. We continue to do so and to support the role that they play in our country, and that will continue. She refers to security guarantees, and I can tell her that the Ministry of Defence is involved in direct discussions on the detail of how security guarantees would need to work. That is essential as part of a just and lasting peace.

[Sarah Green]

Point 24 of Russia’s peace plan proposes to establish a humanitarian committee to resolve outstanding issues, such as prisoner exchanges on an “all for all” basis and the return of civilian detainees and hostages, including children. That approach conflates prisoners of war with stolen children, who are afforded special protected status under the fourth Geneva convention. What guarantees can the Secretary of State provide that the UK will ensure that all Geneva convention signatories uphold their obligations in line with international law and the return of the stolen children?

[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.