Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress his Department has made on resettling 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement programme by 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 22 February, which covers the period up until the end of December 2017, confirmed that a total of 10,538 vulnerable people have been resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) since the start of the scheme. The statistics are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.