Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Stephen Pound Excerpts
Monday 17th November 2014

(9 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness Featherstone Portrait Lynne Featherstone
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I am sorry to hear about my right hon. Friend’s constituent. We keep under constant review the way in which these matters are evolving and the way in which these substances are classified, and I undertake to look into the issue that she has raised.

Stephen Pound Portrait Stephen Pound (Ealing North) (Lab)
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Further to the question asked earlier by my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham East (Heidi Alexander), may I tell the Home Secretary that my Syrian Christian constituents, the Fallou family, have relatives who have fled from Nineveh across the border into Turkey? They have applied to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and been told that the first interview that could possibly be timetabled for them would be in 2017. Will the Home Secretary raise this crucial matter at the conference in Switzerland later this year?

James Brokenshire Portrait James Brokenshire
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We work closely with the UNHCR in respect of the vulnerable persons relocation scheme. I note the point that the hon. Gentleman has made regarding the timetable for an interview, and I will certainly take that away.