Calais Debate

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Department: Home Office

Calais

Andrew Stephenson Excerpts
Monday 24th October 2016

(8 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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The hon. Gentleman is welcome to send me any information that he has. However, over the past few days there have been cases in which we have expected children to be available to board the bus to come to the UK, and sometimes non-governmental organisations themselves have been surprised not to have been able to find them. The position is not quite as straightforward as we wish it were; but I hope that, following the changes in the camp whereby all the children will be in one secure area, it will be more straightforward, when we have made a commitment to bring a child here, for us to do so without its being impossible to find them on the day.

Andrew Stephenson Portrait Andrew Stephenson (Pendle) (Con)
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I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement. Will she tell us how much money the Government have invested in reinforcing the border at Calais?