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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings, reported by Klaas van Dijken and Abdulmoniem Suleiman in January, that key individuals in the government of Sudan are complicit in people smuggling and trafficking; what is their assessment of the extent to which the €100 million EU development package given to Sudan to tackle the flow of irregular migration has addressed that problem; and whether they regard the government of Sudan as part of the solution or part of the problem in combatting human trafficking.  HL6747

Question HL6747: tabled on 28 March 2018 and due for answer by 13 April 2018

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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the findings, reported by Klaas van Dijken and Abdulmoniem Suleiman in January, that key individuals in the government of Sudan are complicit in people smuggling and trafficking; what is their assessment of the extent to which the €100 million EU development package given to Sudan to tackle the flow of irregular migration has addressed that problem; and whether they regard the government of Sudan as part of the solution or part of the problem in combatting human trafficking.  HL6747
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Wednesday 11 April 2018

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Lord Alton of Liverpool
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