Urgent Question on the ‘Dubs programme’ for unaccompanied child refugees
9 February 2017 (updated on 9 February 2017)
Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, asked an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on Thursday 9 February on the closure of the ‘Dubs programme’ for unaccompanied child refugees.
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