Refugees: Housing

(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many offers of accommodation by local authorities for refugees have been (1) made, and (2) accepted.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 28th January 2020

The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

Latest statistics published on 28 November 2019 show that a total of 18,252 people had been resettled in the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme since it began across 317 local authorities.

The statistics, which include a local authority breakdown of resettlements, are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

We have received sufficient pledges from local authorities to meet the 20,000 commitment under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and we continue to work closely with local authorities to turn these offers of support into arrivals.

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