Munira Wilson
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Afghan Resettlement Update
Munira Wilson Excerpts(1 year, 7 months ago)
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Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Nigel Evans)
Order. I have 16 people standing or thereabouts, so can we have shorter questions and shorter answers, Minister?
Munira Wilson (Twickenham) (LD)
The Minister said at least three times in his statement that we will honour our commitment to those who remain in danger in Afghanistan. While that may be true for him personally, I am afraid that as far as this Government go, that promise is utterly hollow. I challenge him to come to my surgery—to look in the eye those Afghans whose families have been left behind—and say that.
In particular, for three weeks in a row now, I have raised in this Chamber the case of five British children under the age of 18 who have been abandoned in hiding in Kabul. Their mother is an Afghan national; there is no safe and legal route for her to apply for. Their British father was blown up by the Taliban. When will the next round of the ACRS open up, or will the Minister admit that the Government have just given up on them?