Syria: Refugees and Counter-terrorism Debate
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Lord Garnier
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Syria: Refugees and Counter-terrorism
Lord Garnier Excerpts(9 years, 2 months ago)
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The Prime Minister
The British programme can get under way straightaway. We need to talk to UNHCR to make sure it can process the people out of the camps, but I think that 20,000 Syrian refugees is a generous and correct approach for Britain to take.
Sir Edward Garnier (Harborough) (Con)
For what it is worth, I think the military event in August was both lawful and right. The refugee and terrorism crisis the Prime Minister has described suggests we need not just a diplomatic and an aid solution but a defence solution. Will he please urge the strategic defence and security review to look carefully at increasing our defence budget over the next year or so, because we are surely going to need it?