Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Angela Eagle and Jess Brown-Fuller

Monday 31st March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Dame Angela Eagle]

Some 84,000 people crossed the channel from the day the Rwandan deal was signed to the day it was scrapped. The Conservatives failed to deter a single boat or deport a single person. Instead, they spent £700 million and sent four people—four failed asylum seekers—to start a new life in Kigali with free housing, free private healthcare and free university education, at a cost of £150,000 each. If the right hon. Gentleman really thinks that paying £150,000 per removed asylum seeker was an adequate answer to the challenge of small boat crossings, then I do not know what planet he is living on.

[Jess Brown-Fuller (Chichester) (LD)]

2. What steps her Department is taking with police forces to tackle violence against women and girls.