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Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 24 February 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Gordon Brown.


Child Migration

Statement on child migration schemes with apologies.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
506 c301-8 
Session
2009-10
Department
Prime Minister
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Nick Clegg | 506 c303 (Link to this contribution) Of course, I add my own voice and that of my party to the Prime Minister's apology for Britain's rol...
Gordon Brown | 506 c302 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the whole House would want to thank the Leader of the Opposition for his eloquence in stat...
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Gordon Brown | 506 c303 (Link to this contribution) The child migrants who are with us today will be pleased to know that every main party—and, I believ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 506 c302 (Link to this contribution) On behalf of the Opposition, I welcome what the Prime Minister has said and the moving words of the ...
Gordon Brown | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) Both colleagues who have just spoken are right. These harrowing experiences about which we have read...
Howard Stoate | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) I was one of the members of the Health Committee who visited Australia and New Zealand. I have been ...
Robert Walter | 506 c303-4 (Link to this contribution) I was a member of the Health Committee that spent two weeks in 1998 in Australia and New Zealand hea...
Gordon Brown | 506 c303 (Link to this contribution) I do agree with my hon. Friend and I pay tribute to his personal work in making people aware of the ...
Kevin Barron | 506 c303 (Link to this contribution) On behalf of the Health Committee, may I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and for the Go...
Robert Syms | 506 c304-5 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the Prime Minister's statement and agree with the comments about David Hinchliffe? Mor...
Gordon Brown | 506 c304 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. He has taken a huge interest in this subject, and I join him ...
Frank Dobson | 506 c304 (Link to this contribution) May I join in welcoming the Prime Minister's statement? There have been several calls for public apo...
Mark Pritchard | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) In welcoming the Prime Minister's comments, may I encourage him not to forget a new generation of 65...
Gordon Brown | 506 c306 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, and if he has any evidence of abuse that should be dealt with, he s...
Geoffrey Robinson | 506 c306 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will have heard the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Mr. Dhan...
Gordon Brown | 506 c306 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are disbursing the money as quickly as we can to those in the...
Shailesh Vara | 506 c306 (Link to this contribution) In order to appreciate the scale of the problem, can the Prime Minister give an indication of the nu...
Parmjit Dhanda | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's statement. The first time I came to know of this was a few years ago ...
Gordon Brown | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I thank him for his personal efforts. Because we have failed...
John Hemming | 506 c305-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, welcome the Prime Minister's statement. I must declare an interest as chair of the Justice f...
Gordon Brown | 506 c306 (Link to this contribution) This information is being collected over time, so I think I should give a more updated report to the...
Gordon Brown | 506 c308 (Link to this contribution) First, the deception was unacceptable, but secondly the results of that deception were that parents ...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 506 c308 (Link to this contribution) Is it not clear, from what the Prime Minister has said, that one of the most reprehensible features ...
Gordon Brown | 506 c307-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can. I thank the hon. Gentleman, because every party in the House has now associated itself w...
Mark Durkan | 506 c308 (Link to this contribution) May I commend the Prime Minister's sincere apology and those from other party leaders in the House? ...
Gordon Brown | 506 c308 (Link to this contribution) The fund is intended to help those families who were split up as a result of misguided decisions. Ob...
Charlotte Atkins | 506 c307 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on his apology today and congratulate the Child Migrants Trust...
Gordon Brown | 506 c307 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. We have got to be prepared to say that this was wrong and co...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 506 c307 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's statement and would like to associate my colleagues with it. It is a ...
Gordon Brown | 506 c307 (Link to this contribution) I hope that we will be able to continue the funding for as long as it is necessary to ensure that wh...
Judy Mallaber | 506 c306 (Link to this contribution) My constituent, Pat Hewkin, who sadly died last year, lost her younger brother when she was six when...
Andrew Selous | 506 c306-7 (Link to this contribution) This was a very poignant statement for me, because, at the age of five—in 1967—I travelled to Austra...
Gordon Brown | 506 c306 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the work that my hon. Friend has done. Amid the tragedies of separation, we can se...
Gordon Brown | 506 c301-2 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement. Until the late 1960s, successive UK Gover...
Gordon Brown | 506 c304 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the work that the hon. Gentleman has done and for his visits to Australia, which h...
Gordon Brown | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman.
Subjects
Children Abuse Australia Canada Migration New Zealand South Africa Zimbabwe
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