Afghanistan: Resettlement
(asked on 22nd May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to provide an additional resettlement quota for Afghan refugees in Pakistan identified by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for resettlement.
Answered by
Seema Malhotra
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Department for Education) (Equalities)
Between 2021 and March 2025, over 34,000 individuals have been resettled and relocated through the Afghan Resettlement Programme. The latest immigration statistics can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2025.
The Government’s priority remains the resettlement and relocation of those already identified as eligible but who have not yet travelled.