Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many persons benefited from the International Organisation for Migration's Gateway Programme in 2011; whether that programme has continued since then; and in what countries the beneficiaries were resettled.

The Gateway Protection Programme is the resettlement programme operated by UK since 2002. The programme is operated in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a key delivery partner in assisting with pre departure logistics for refugees resettled to UK under the programme. The number of refugees resettled under the programme is published through our official statistics at quarterly intervals. The next publication, on 27 November, will include numbers to the year ending September 2014. These will be available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

The number of refugees resettled to other countries’ programmes is a matter for UNHCR and the states concerned.