Keir Starmer: 'The UK is playing our full part' in trying to return Ukrainian children

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00:00I join the Prime Minister in welcoming the delegation from Bring Back Kids, who are trying

00:05to return the tens of thousands of children abducted by Vladimir Putin, an act of pure

00:11evil. The Prime Minister will be aware that they have been working with the Yale University

00:16humanitarian lab, which was tracking thousands of those children inside Russia until recently.

00:22I say until recently because they have had their long-term funding removed. Will we consider

00:28using our existing contributions to the partnership fund for a resilient Ukraine to restore that

00:36important work that they are doing, and in doing so restore the hope that those children

00:41can be returned to their anguished families?

00:44I am grateful to the Prime Minister for emphasising this again. Russia's abduction of Ukrainian

00:50children is sickening, and I think across the House we would all agree on that. A peace

00:55settlement in Ukraine must see Russia held to account and the children reunited with

01:00their families. In specific reference to his question, the UK is playing its full part

01:05in international efforts, including funding the Bring Kids Back initiative through the

01:11partnership fund for a resilient Ukraine. I want to reassure the whole House that we

01:16will do everything we can to see these children returned and reintegrated as safely and as

01:22quickly as is possible.