Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to make any new funds available to help with the care of refugees arriving in Europe.

The Government has no plans to provide funds to other EU Member States to care for migrants or refugees arriving in other parts of Europe. We will, however, continue to provide practical support coordinated by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) in the form of expertise to help build capacity in States facing particular pressures.

HM Government has already committed £900 million in humanitarian aid to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the region. A further £100 million announced in the past few days, brings our commitment to £1bn, more than any other country in the world except the United States.

In addition, the Chancellor has announced a fundamental review of how the aid budget is used . The current Syrian resettlement scheme is funded through a mixture of Official Development Assistance and EU funds: we are using the aid budget to help some of the most vulnerable people in the world and to relieve the pressure on local communities.