Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy that local authorities each house 10 refugee families; and if he will make a statement.
My rt. hon. Friends, the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government are leading a Joint Committee to put in place the necessary arrangements to expand the existing Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme to resettle up to 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament.
The Home Secretary will provide an update to the House next week.