Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have agreed to be part of the Syrian Resettlement Programme.

Under the scheme, local authorities sign up to accept refugees on a voluntary basis. The last set of statistics, published on 25 August 2016 showed that between the start of October 2015 and the end of June 2016, 2,646 people were resettled under the scheme across 118 different local authorities. The quarterly migration statistics set out how many people have been resettled in each authority under the scheme. The resettlement programme has sufficient pledges of places from local authorities across the UK to resettle 20,000 vulnerable Syrians and will continue to work closely with them to turn those pledges into places.