Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of how many Syrian refugees will arrive in the United Kingdom for resettlement in the next 12 months.

We intend to resettle 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament. We will continue to work closely with the UNHCR to identify appropriate cases, prioritising the most vulnerable. As the expanded scheme is based on need and reliant on the UNHCR and other partners to make it work, it is not possible or appropriate to set any sort of annual target, but we are clear that we want to help people as quickly as possible.