I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. My intervention is pertinent to that clause. Can he confirm, first, what I had indicated from the Independent Commission for Aid Impact: that it was the Home Office that asked for the UNHCR to direct the resettlement scheme to be focused on Afghans only, therefore closing it down for other countries; and, secondly, that when it comes to what the Government could consider to be new and safe and legal routes, they could simply be expanding some of the funding available for the UK resettlement scheme, because that is what the Government currently define as a safe and legal route, rather than it being new country routes?
Illegal Migration Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Purvis of Tweed
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 14 June 2023.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Illegal Migration Bill.
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