Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many asylum seekers the United Kingdom has accepted so far under the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Gateway Protection Programme; and what is the breakdown of those individuals by nationality.

The numbers of refugees resettled under the Gateway Protection Programme are released as part of the Home Office statistics each quarter. Since Gateway began to 31 March 2015 (the date of the most recently published statistics), a total of 6,363 refugees have been resettled to the UK. Information on the nationality of resettled refugees has been included in the statistics since 2013.

The Gateway Protection Programme is a Home Office led scheme operated in partnership with UNHCR. Those resettled under the programme are not asylum seekers, but are recognised as refugees by UNHCR prior to their resettlement to the UK. The most recent statistics are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release