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Speaker’s Statement
Monday 6th March 2017

(7 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Brandon Lewis Portrait Brandon Lewis
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The Government will respond to that consultation in due course—to the House—once we have had a chance to go through all the replies.

James Berry Portrait James Berry (Kingston and Surbiton) (Con)
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T9. Will the Secretary of State confirm that the Government remain committed to resettling 23,000 of the most vulnerable children and adults directly from Syria, the middle east and north Africa over this Parliament, in addition to asylum seekers and family reunion cases? Will she update the House on how many people have been resettled in the past year?

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I reassure my hon. Friend that we remain committed to those numbers, ensuring that we protect and move people over from the region. We have, in fact, brought over 4,369 in the past 12 months. The last Labour Government capped their figure at 750 per year, and we are pleased to be doing five times that every year.

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