Wales as a Nation of Sanctuary

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:43 pm on 6 December 2022.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 1:43, 6 December 2022

First Minister, you've laid out some of the tensions between the UK Government and the Welsh Government and, indeed, I have to say, this nation of sanctuary over the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers. But, surely, it should be impossible for the Home Office unilaterally to place refugees and asylum seekers in places without any advance notice with the communities or with Welsh Government or the local community involved, with the health board in the area, with the education authority in the area, because this is about the care of those individuals, for which those services need to be in place there. So, we need the UK to work far better than this right across the policy piste. Can I ask would you support, First Minister, proposals to strengthen the voice of this Senedd Cymru, or even to create a legal duty of co-operation amongst the governments and the nations and regions of the UK, indeed, as was laid out in the Brown report yesterday?