Asylum: Syria

(asked on 10th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans her Department has to extend the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 17th November 2014

Pursuant to the Minister for Modern Slavery and Organised Crime's answer of 14 July 2014: Column 494W, there are no plans at present to extend the scheme andwe will continue to work closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the region to identify the exceptional cases whose needsare so profound that they need to be resettled to a country like the UK. Groups of Syrians are being brought to the UK on a regular basis under the scheme. We envisage relocating several hundred people under the scheme over the next three years and we are on course to do so. Given the scale of the crisis, we believe that humanitarian aid and ending the crisis are the most effective way to help the majority of refugees, and ease the burden on their host countries. The UK has donated £700 million to the relief effort in Syria. UK funding is helping hundreds of thousands of refugees.

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