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UK-Rwanda Partnership

Proceeding contribution from Lord Cormack (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 7 December 2023. It occurred during Ministerial statement on UK-Rwanda Partnership.

My Lords, the seventh paragraph of the Statement that was delivered in another place yesterday says that the Government will introduce legislation next week

“to give effect to the judgment of Parliament that Rwanda is a safe country, notwithstanding UK law or any interpretation of international law”.—[Official Report, Commons, 6/12/23; col. 433.]

Can my noble friend explain precisely what that means? Will he also share with the House how we will measure success, and whether we expect to have 100 people sent to Rwanda next year, or 200, or 1,000? Could he give us a rough idea of what figure the Government expect to reach to be able to achieve success?

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

834 c1618 

Session

2023-24

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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