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Home Office should rule out sending migrant children to Rwanda, says Commons committee – UK politics live

Tory-dominated committee says bill risks ‘turning back the clock’ on immigration policy

Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, is about to start giving evidence to the Covid inquiry. He is the only witness scheduled for this morning, and so the hearing could run until about 1pm.

At this stage the inquiry is just looking at how prepared the UK was for a pandemic, and so the evidence will focus on events before 2020. Hancock became health secretary in 2018.

No, I don’t think it does. I have always been concerned that the Rwanda scheme is not only very difficult to justify – why we should be sending asylum seekers to Rwanda to be processed within the Rwandan asylum system, when actually we should have better systems here?

But the value for money question is a perfectly valid and legitimate one.

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