Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of refugees that the Government expects to receive under the expanded Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme before the end of this calendar year.

We intend to resettle up to 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament. We will continue to work closely with the UNHCR to identify appropriate cases, prioritising the most vulnerable. As the expanded scheme is based on need and reliant on the UNHCR and other partners to deliver, it is not possible or appropriate to set any sort of annual target, but we are clear that we want to help as many people as we can as quickly as possible.