Debates between Seema Malhotra and Melanie Ward during the 2024 Parliament

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Debate between Seema Malhotra and Melanie Ward
Monday 25th November 2024

(1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Seema Malhotra Portrait Seema Malhotra
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I thank the hon. Lady for her question, and for all her work for those who are here from Afghanistan. We continue to seek to email and notify all individuals currently resettled in the UK whom we are aware of, and I will certainly continue to discuss with her the methods we are using for those facing other issues.

Melanie Ward Portrait Melanie Ward (Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy) (Lab)
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My constituent Dr Lubna Hadoura is an NHS consultant who desperately wants to be able to care for her 80-year-old mother, a refugee displaced from Gaza earlier this year who is now alone in Egypt and unable to care for herself. Will the Minister assure me that her application for an adult dependent relative visa will be carefully, humanely and properly considered?

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am not quite sure that that is actually about the resettlement scheme, but okay.