Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Adam Afriyie and Priti Patel

Wednesday 18th October 2017 Commons Chamber

[Priti Patel]

Of course Aung San Suu Kyi has an important role to play. She has a voice, and she needs to use it to stop the persecution and, with the Burmese military and with what is effectively her Government, to create routes home for the Rohingya people, giving them security, rather than the fleeing and persecution we have seen. It is not just for the British Government, although we are doing this, but for all international voices to step up, come together and make that abundantly clear to her.

[Adam Afriyie (Windsor) (Con)]

6. What steps she is taking to promote development in other Commonwealth countries.