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Commons Chamber6. Whether the Government plan to continue to apply the Dublin III Regulation after the UK leaves the EU.
20. Whether the Government plan to continue to apply the Dublin III Regulation after the UK leaves the EU.
The Prime Minister has been clear that we will continue to co-operate with our European partners on migration and asylum as we leave the EU. In our negotiations, we will discuss the exact nature of this co-operation as part of our future partnership, but as the Secretary of State said in his statement to the House on 5 September,
“We are a country with a strong tradition of tolerance and generosity, and if anything, I expect that to grow after we leave, not diminish.”—[Official Report, 5 September 2017; Vol. 628, c. 64.]