Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Syrian refugees have been settled in the UK during the last six months; and how many such refugees she expects to arrive in the next six months.

Up until the end of June, 50 people have been relocated to the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme. Statistics on arrivals are published through our official statistics at quarterly intervals and no further details on the number of arrivals will be available until the next publication on 27 November, which will include numbers to the year ending September 2014. These will be available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

The scheme is based on need, rather than designed to meet set arrival projections. However, we will continue to bring groups here on a regular basis, and envisage that several hundred people will be helped over the next three years.