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
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- Parliamentary proceeding
- Reference
- 506 c301-8
- Session
- 2009-10
- Department
- Prime Minister
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Proceeding contributions
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Gordon Brown | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) Both colleagues who have just spoken are right. These harrowing experiences about which we have read...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Gordon Brown | 506 c308 (Link to this contribution) First, the deception was unacceptable, but secondly the results of that deception were that parents ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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? ...
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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...
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Charlotte Atkins | 506 c307 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on his apology today and congratulate the Child Migrants Trust...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Gordon Brown | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman.
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Gordon Brown | 506 c305 (Link to this contribution) I certainly can.
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