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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government plans to provide additional funding to local authorities to assist them to provide support to Syrian refugees.

My rt. hon. Friends, the Home Secretary (Theresa May) and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Greg Clark), are leading a Joint Committee to expand the existing Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme to resettle up to 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament.

We will work with the local government sector, devolved administrations, the voluntary and community sector, faith communities and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to put in place the necessary arrangements.

My rt. hon. Friend, the Home Secretary provided an update to the House today.