VoteClimate: Refugees (Family Reunion) (No.2) Bill - 16th March 2018

Refugees (Family Reunion) (No.2) Bill - 16th March 2018

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Refugees (Family Reunion) (No.2) Bill.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2018-03-16/debates/98BC79C8-B9C9-469F-B4B5-C5D9702540DF/Refugees(FamilyReunion)(No2)Bill

11:33 Chris Law (SNP)

We face unprecedented times. More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes owing to conflict, persecution, and the effects of climate change. That is the entire population of the United Kingdom. More than 22 million of those people are refugees, and half of them children. Every Member of the House was once a child, so let us keep that at the heart of our debate today. Many of those children have been torn away from their families and are desperate to be reunited with them, but they are being kept apart thanks to bureaucratic hurdles in UK policy.

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