Refugees: Syria

(asked on 8th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department plans to take to ensure that the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme to meet the target of resettling 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 15th January 2019

Work continues with local authorities and international partners to deliver the Government’s commitment to resettle 20,000 refugees under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) by 2020 and we are on track to do this. In July 2017 we took the decision to extend the scope of the scheme to include refugees who have fled the conflict in Syria but do not have Syrian nationality.

The latest published statistics show that by the end of September 2018 13,961 people have been resettled under the VPRS since the scheme began in 2014.

Progress on resettlement is reported in the quarterly immigration statistics. The statistics are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

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