Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether new safe and legal routes to the UK will be open to refugees from Sudan.

The new named community sponsorship route and the new refugee study route will open to applications from prospective lead sponsors later in October, with the first arrivals of refugees for both routes expected from autumn 2027 onwards. The refugee work route is expected to open next year.

Further details of the new routes, including eligibility requirements, will be announced in due course.