Nationality and Borders Bill (Second sitting) - 21st September 2021

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Nationality and Borders Bill (Second sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-09-21/debates/86708E23-7B74-4B2E-BAEB-ECFBCFE05EB4/NationalityandBordersBillSecondsitting

16:14 Anne McLaughlin

The EU has its own difficulties in determining the allocation of asylum seekers across the Schengen zone because they do not agree among themselves about how they should be distributed. The bigger question is not necessarily a European one but a global one. No doubt you will hear evidence from experts on this. The need for international resettlement is a huge problem. We have seen it in Afghanistan; we have climate change; and we have migratory pressures coming up from South America to the US border. People are going to continue to move in great numbers over the next 20 or 30 years. The question is how the western world is going to cope with that.

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