Yvette Cooper, Chair of Labour’s Refugee Taskforce, responding to the Prime Minister’s comments at PMQs, said:

“The huge campaign to help child refugees has forced the Government to accept that more needs to be done - and that is real tribute to Alf Dubs, Save the Children and the cross party campaign.

"But we still need much more detail about what the Prime Minister is planning now.

"Last week David Cameron said he was opposed to the Dubs amendment, now it appears he will accept it. If so that would be extremely welcome and would show that strength of Parliamentary feeling has forced Ministers to change their minds.

"But they need to show they will turn the amendment into new and tangible action. The spirit of the Dubs amendment is for Britain to give sanctuary to lone child refugees in Europe and simply reiterating their previous promise to speed up existing rules isn’t enough.

"The Prime Minister should not try to fudge this. He was wrong to claim last week that child refugees alone in Europe don’t need help, so I hope he will be clear about that now and set out what the Government will do next. That way everyone can welcome the Government’s action and come together to support child refugees.”