Lord McFall of Alcluith
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United Kingdom Resettlement Scheme
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Baroness Williams of Trafford (Con)
The noble Earl is right to point out that we are dependent on local authority places and accommodation to bring forward resettlement. We are very grateful to local authorities, but we cannot go beyond their capacity. We will launch the new UK global resettlement scheme in March this year. We intended to launch it in March last year, but clearly the pandemic placed restrictions on this. Resettlement arrivals have been coming since December 2020. We have received regular calls for that commitment, and it will be forthcoming.
The Senior Deputy Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith)
My Lords, all supplementary questions have now been asked and we move to the next Question.