Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of refugees who will be resettled in the UK under the asylum route in 2018.

The Government’s current commitment is to resettle 750 refugees each financial year under the Gateway Protection Programme

We do not resettle people under the asylum route and there is no provision within our Immigration Rules for a person to be allowed to travel to the UK to seek asylum; a person must be in the UK in order to lodge an asylum claim here. All claims for asylum are considered on their individual merits, and where a genuine need for protection or a well founded fear of persecution is established, refugee status will be granted.