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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.