Point of Order Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Point of Order

Kevin Brennan Excerpts
Thursday 9th March 2023

(1 year, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kevin Brennan Portrait Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) (Lab)
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On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In an exchange earlier with the Leader of the House, I raised the asylum case of a constituent of mine whose husband was executed by the Iranian regime. Not many things shock me in this place, but I was genuinely shocked that the Leader of the House—quite rightly doing what she does to defend Government policy—failed to even emote a simple scintilla of sympathy about the situation that my constituent has been placed in. Is any mechanism available under the Standing Orders by which the Leader of the House might be able to come to the Dispatch Box and express sympathy, and perhaps even do what she has done for other constituents by offering to take the case to the Home Office for further scrutiny?

Rosie Winterton Portrait Madam Deputy Speaker (Dame Rosie Winterton)
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The Leader of the House is at the Dispatch Box and clearly wishes to respond, so I will first ask her to do so.