Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they are liaising with local public service providers to ensure that all incoming refugees as part of the refugee resettlement policy are appropriately assisted within local community cohesion programmes.

The Government and the Local Government Association continue to work closely with individual local authorities who are volunteering to take refugees.

Local authorities are required to provide refugees they resettle with a 12 month support package tailored to their individual needs which includes; accommodation, casework support and integration assistance, medical and social care needs and English language tuition. The first 12 months of a refugee’s resettlement costs will be funded by central government from the Overseas Development Aid budget.