Refugees: Resettlement

(asked on 22nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on delivering the Emergency Resettlement Mechanism; and on what date that programme will open.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 2nd March 2022

The Government will pilot an Emergency Resettlement Mechanism to provide urgent protection in exceptional circumstances to refugees referred by UNHCR as in need of rapid emergency resettlement.

The successful emergency evacuation of approximately 15,000 people from Afghanistan to the UK has significantly increased demand on available local authority housing and support. As a direct result, the commencement of the pilot has been put on hold temporarily.

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