Refugees: Resettlement
(asked on 22nd February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will set annual resettlement targets as part of the Emergency Resettlement Mechanism.
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.