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Mark Pritchard

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Commons Financial Privilege
Wednesday 28th October 2015

(9 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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I do not think the Prime Minister will be needing any reminder about the nature of the crisis. However, the hon. Gentleman is quite right. It is precisely for those reasons that we provide core funding to the UNHCR and UNICEF.

Mark Pritchard Portrait Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin) (Con)
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The United Kingdom is rightly, in my view, taking 20,000 refugees. There are eight categories of profiles of resettlement under the UNHCR guidelines. Will the Government be using those guidelines or will we introduce our own guidelines given that those eight categories do not include widows and orphans?

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We will be using the UNHCR guidelines.

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