Asylum Seekers: Removal to Rwanda Debate

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Department: Home Office

Asylum Seekers: Removal to Rwanda

Olivia Blake Excerpts
Monday 13th June 2022

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove
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My hon. Friend can be reassured that Ministers believe the law must be upheld and that individuals with no right to be here should be able to be removed from our country without any barriers to that happening.

Olivia Blake Portrait Olivia Blake (Sheffield, Hallam) (Lab)
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The human beings who are on the flight tomorrow have, as the shadow Secretary of State, my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), said, been through torture, abuse and horrific trauma. They deserve our compassion. What has the Department done to assess the needs and mental wellbeing of those being deported? Does the Minister regret that the joint partnership monitoring committee has not yet been set up and that there is no oversight of what is happening so far?