Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Sheila Gilmore Excerpts
Monday 10th March 2014

(10 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Norman Baker Portrait Norman Baker
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I entirely agree that it is very important that the NHS plays a particularly good role. The public health Minister, the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Battersea (Jane Ellison), has been very active on this front and has made great steps forward. She is looking at how the whole NHS can help the cross-departmental effort to tackle this appalling crime.

Sheila Gilmore Portrait Sheila Gilmore (Edinburgh East) (Lab)
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In my constituency, many fairly young couples are struggling with the new rules on being able to marry someone from outside this country. They feel that they are being made to pay the price of the Government’s failure to keep to its migration targets. Has the Home Secretary now decided how to respond to the various reports on this or on whether any changes are going to be made?