PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Refugees: Syria (1 September 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress the Government has made towards its target of resettling 20,000 Syrian refugees in the UK by 2020.

Asked by:
Alison McGovern (Labour)

The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. Latest statistics published on 25 August confirmed that a total of a total of 2,898 Syrians have been resettled under the scheme since it began, 2,646 of these arriving since 1 October 2015.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
6 September 2016