Member

Today’s debate has conflated a number of issues: family reunion for children who have travelled to the UK by irregular means; family reunion to allow adults to be reunited with children, having come to the UK via irregular means; and family reunion for legal migration routes. The amendments before us deal with all of those issues in many different ways. Although family unity is a key priority under the refugee family reunion route, the child/relative protection route and other family routes, the Government—I think that any Government would take this view—have a duty to ensure that public services are not placed under unreasonable pressure. Given the reasonable immediate pressures that result from family reunion, we should look at those issues in a way that reviews the situation.