Urgent Question on child refugees in Europe: 25 January 2016
25 January 2016 (updated on 25 January 2016)
Minister of State for Security and Immigration, James Brokenshire, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Yvette Cooper, Labour MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, in the House of Commons on child refugees in Europe.
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