The urgency and haste with which the Government are rushing this Measure would be relevant and justified if this Bill were purporting to deal with what is a grave and imminent Crisis in Our Midst; but it cannot be justified at the present stage, when it has no effect, and does not purport to have any effect, upon the real position which must be in all our minds.

As he says, we need to think not only in the short term to tackle the impact of the humanitarian Crisis in Our Midst because of the Syrian conflict, but in the long term.