Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Joan Ryan Excerpts
Monday 10th June 2019

(5 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Wallace Portrait Mr Wallace
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The right hon. Gentleman raises an important point about investment in our border. However, I had a quick discussion with the Home Secretary, who does not have the same recollection of what he announced at the weekend. I am sure that if the right hon. Gentleman writes to the Home Secretary, the Home Secretary will set out the position.

Joan Ryan Portrait Joan Ryan (Enfield North) (Change UK)
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I was horrified to read that a Hezbollah bomb factory storing three tonnes of explosive materials was discovered in north-west London in 2015—three and a half years before the Home Secretary fully proscribed the antisemitic terror group. Why did the Government wait so long to act? Why were the public and MPs not informed, given the debates that we have had on this issue?