Asylum: Syria

(asked on 27th June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Government has made in placing vulnerable Syrian families in the UK.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 3rd July 2017

The resettlement programme is on track to deliver the commitment to resettle 20,000 vulnerable Syrians by the year 2020. Between the start of October 2015 and the end of March 2017, 7,055 people have been resettled under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme across 235 different local authorities.

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