Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Michael Fabricant Excerpts
Wednesday 17th January 2018

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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If any hon. Member of this House has individual cases, I would be very happy to look at them. A huge amount of effort is going into not just trying to reunite families but enabling people who have fled for their lives to identify who they are—many of them have lost documents. A very good, methodical programme is doing that, but I would be happy to discuss any cases that hon. Members have.

Michael Fabricant Portrait Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con)
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In relation to the work undertaken by the Department to combat modern slavery, will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to praise our former colleagues Anthony Steen and Sir John Randall for the work they have done?

Penny Mordaunt Portrait Penny Mordaunt
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I am very happy to do that. They have made a huge contribution to an agenda that is one of our Prime Minister’s priorities. We are stepping up our efforts to ask other nations to lean in and follow suit.