Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) Amendment 1D, which seeks to ensure that the eventual Act has due regard for international law, the Children - Speech Link
2: None The Government cannot get anybody to fly these refugees and migrants—they cannot persuade anybody. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) is not the first time in legislative history that a country has been deemed presumptively safe for refugees - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: (§IV(a)(13)), and entreaties states to provide “complementary protection” to lone children who do
Written Evidence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: In total, 1,087 refugees approached London homelessness services for help in January following Home
Written Evidence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: for asylum from outside the UK, this is likely to cover the vast majority of the men, women and children
Written Evidence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: However, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has consistently
Written Evidence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: This caused significant disruption to the schooling of children and placed additional pressures onto
Oral Evidence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: on important work in developing countries was instead being spent in this country on dealing with refugees
Oral Evidence Apr. 15 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: on important work in developing countries was instead being spent in this country on dealing with refugees
Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) It is crucial that we take steps to safeguard children, and avoid lengthy legal challenges that prevent - Speech Link
2: None Lords amendment 7B, on the age assessment of unaccompanied children, again asks quite reasonably that - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) The mass migration of people—refugees, or those fleeing from the consequences of climate change, seeking - Speech Link
4: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) The late Tony Benn put it well when he said that how Governments treat refugees is an indication of how - Speech Link
5: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) mental health, and then are eventually found to be children, as all the statistics demonstrate. - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Alton of Liverpool (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the estimate by the General Coordination of Camps for the Displaced and Refugees in Sudan that over 560 children have died from malnutrition during the last 11 months of the war in that country, and of UNICEF’s prediction that 700,000 Sudanese children will suffer severe malnutrition in 2024, and what steps they are taking in response.
Answered by Lord Benyon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
We remain a committed donor to Sudan and provided £42.6 million in humanitarian aid to support people there in 2023-2024, including £12.2 million to UNICEF for lifesaving nutrition activities. In this new financial year, UK bilateral ODA to Sudan will nearly double to £89 million. Funding for South Sudan was increased to £7.75 million, which includes £3.5 million for food security in the Maban refugees camps. The lack of humanitarian access continues to make it extremely difficult for humanitarian organisations to provide the necessary levels of assistance. On 8 March, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2724, led by the UK, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Sudan during the month of Ramadan and underlining the urgency of humanitarian access. We condemn the fact that the warring parties have not heeded this Resolution.