Refugees: Yazidis

(asked on 7th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Yazidi refugees have been resettled in the UK since 2014; what resettlement schemes were used for those people; and how many successful Yazidi applicants were made under each resettlement scheme.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 1st April 2022

The Home Office provides resettlement solely on the basis of needs, identified by UNHCR. Individuals ethnic and religious background is not part of this consideration.

We therefore do not publish a religious or ethnic breakdown of those who have been resettled.

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