Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been resettled through the Community Sponsorship Scheme in each year since 2016.

The Home Office publishes data on resettlement in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on people who have been resettled through the Community Sponsorship Scheme, by nationality, are published in table Asy_D02 of the ‘asylum and resettlement detailed datasets’.

Resettlements through the Community Sponsorship Scheme have been published as standalone figures since February 2021. Previously these figures were included within the Vulnerable Person Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) and Vulnerable Children Resettlement Scheme (VCRS) data but weren’t separately identifiable.

Figures on the total number of people resettled through community sponsorship scheme prior to this can be found in the 'How many people do we grant asylum or protection to?' chapter of the Immigration Statistics, year ending March 2021 release, (section ‘1.1 Resettlement’). The data are not available broken down by year or nationality prior to February 2021.

Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to December 2021. Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’. The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.