Syria: Refugees and Counter-terrorism Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Syria: Refugees and Counter-terrorism

Nia Griffith Excerpts
Monday 7th September 2015

(9 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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The ability to move in Europe and take a job is something that many of our own citizens enjoy by going to live in another country. What we should be addressing is the additional pull factor of our welfare system, which can give people some €12,000 or €13,000 in their first year after coming to Britain. That would ensure that free movement works, which is important, but is not artificially inflated by our own welfare system.

Nia Griffith Portrait Nia Griffith (Llanelli) (Lab)
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The Prime Minister has mentioned the five-year protection visa. Will he give assurances that people who have that visa will be allowed to work and travel, and that there will be an automatic assumption of the extension of proper resettlement rights to them if they so wish?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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The basic answer to all those questions is yes.