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Welcome to politics.co.uk’s as-it-happens page. Here, you can keep up to date with speeches, debates and major political events in real time. Just hit refresh on your browser to see the latest development. This event is now over, but you can see how it happened below. By Ian Dunt 11:00 – Well, here we are…. Read more »

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Only one family returned home under govt scheme
£1m migrant scheme helps ‘one family’

By politics.co.uk staff A £1m government scheme to help unsuccessful asylum seekers to leave the UK helped only one family to return home. The pilot project run by the charity Migrant Helpline was designed to reduce the number of children kept in detention every year and started in Kent in November 2007. Up until 2000,… Read more »