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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jenn Selby

Robert Jenrick criticises UK red tape after taking in Ukrainian family

Robert Jenrick
Robert Jenrick said he had not yet received the £350 he is entitled to for hosting the family, but would not accept it himself anyway. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

The former cabinet minister Robert Jenrick has criticised the scheme to resettle refugees from Ukraine as “overly bureaucratic”, after he is thought to have become the first MP to welcome a Ukrainian family to Britain.

He described the process by which Maria, 40, and her two children, Bohdan, 15, and Khrystyna, 11, had got to the UK as “traumatic”. The children’s father has stayed in Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion, as is the law there.

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