Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April to Question 150113, whether her Department’s policy to evaluating ongoing refugee resettlement will govern the evaluation of the (a) number of arrivals over time, (b) public discourse and responses and (c) patterns of secondary migration related to refugee resettlement schemes.

The Home Office will set out its approach to evaluating the Government’s refugee resettlement schemes in due course outlining the scope of the evaluation and the frequency of data collection.

The evaluation approach is expected to draw on the mixed-methods approach used to evaluate the previous Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme. It is expected this will include analysis of data such as numbers of arrivals over time and cohort characteristics, as well as the collection of data on refugees against a range of indicators of integration, such as education, employment, language skills, housing and health, with the aim of better understanding barriers to integration and identifying how best to support resettled refugees’ longer-term integration into life in the UK.

It is intended that the products of this evaluation will be made publicly available once the evaluation has concluded.

This Government introduced two new schemes: the Ukraine Family Scheme announced on 4 March, and the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ Scheme announced by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities on 14 March

The Ukrainian Schemes have been designed in light of very different circumstances to those which led to the Government’s Syrian and Afghan resettlement schemes.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible for the Homes for Ukraine scheme.