RAF Akrotiri: Refugees

(asked on 9th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the physical and mental health of refugees arriving by boat at RAF Akrotiri; and what steps he plans to take to ensure the wellbeing of those refugees.


Answered by
Penny Mordaunt Portrait
Penny Mordaunt
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons
This question was answered on 16th November 2015

The transit facility at Dhekelia Station in Cyprus has been developed with advice from the Department for International Development (DfID) and has been visited by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Cyprus, who has said that the conditions of the facility exceed the standard of comparable set-ups.

We have a DfID adviser embedded at the transit facility who continues to advise on best practice which has enabled us to maintain these high standards.

All of the migrants have been assessed by medical personnel and provided with any necessary treatment.


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