Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will establish an asylum programme for young Yazidi and other women who wish to relocate to the UK.

There are a number of resettlement schemes the UK operates that young Yazidi and other women may qualify for, subject to meeting the schemes’ varying criteria. These are Gateway, Mandate, the Syrian Resettlement Scheme and the Government’s new Children at Risk Resettlement Scheme. All schemes see the UK working closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to identify cases that they deem in need of resettlement according to agreed criteria. Only UNHCR registered refugees are eligible under these schemes.

The Syrian Resettlement Scheme is only for Syrian nationals. Gateway, Mandate and the Children at Risk Resettlement Scheme are not nationality specific.