Refugees: Climate Change

(asked on 19th July 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the capacity of the UK to provide refuge for the number of climate refugees that her Department estimates will arrive in the UK in each of the next five years.


Answered by
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Robert Jenrick
This question was answered on 8th September 2023

Climate change is not a criteria in the refugee convention, and therefore individuals would not be eligible for resettlement.

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