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420610

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what discussions his Department has had with local authorities on their capacity to house refugees.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Margaret Ferrier
	uin	11272
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>The Government is working closely with the Local Government Association and local authorities already supporting the expanded resettlement scheme to help identify and promote the range of housing options that can be used by local housing authorities to house vulnerable Syrian refugees.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 20/10/2015 16:54:56 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4386 label Biography information for Margaret Ferrier

420612

	registered interest
	date	12/10/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what funding the Government plans to allocate to local authorities for housing Syrian refugees; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	The Wrekin
	tabling member printed	Mark Pritchard
	uin	11283
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/10/2015 answer text <p>Under the expanded Vulnerable Persons scheme, local authorities’ costs for the first year of a Syrian refugees resettlement are funded from the Overseas Development Assistance budget. To ensure that local authorities can plan ahead we will also provide additional funding to assist with costs incurred in future years (2 to 5). The Government is working closely with the Local Government Association and individual councils on the details of how funding arrangements for years 2 to 5 will operate.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 20/10/2015 16:55:46 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1576 label Biography information for Mark Pritchard

433753

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Government will inform local authorities of the increased funding that will be available for housing Syrian refugees.
	tabling member constituency	Sutton and Cheam
	tabling member printed	Paul Scully
	uin	18463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The first 12 months of a refugee's resettlement costs are funded by Government using the Overseas Development Aid budget.</p><p>In November 2015 the Government announced around £129 million to assist with local authority costs over years 2-5 for those local authorities who are resettlling refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. This is unringfenced funding and it will be for local authorities to decide how to use the funding to support the refugees they resettle.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 10/12/2015 16:46:41 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully

436172

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what help his Department will provide to assist local authorities to resettle Syrian refugees over the next five years.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
	uin	19144
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Local authorities have played a vital role in helping those Syrian refugees arriving here to settle into a new life in the UK. The Syrian Resettlement Team, made up of officials from Home Office, DCLG and DFID, is working closely with those local authorities that wish to participate in the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme, helping to manage the process of accepting refugees for resettlement, providing help and advice where appropriate.</p><p>At the Spending Review the Government committed £129 million to assist with local authority costs over years 2-5 for those local authorities who are resettlling refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. This is unringfenced funding and it will be for local authorities to decide how to use the funding to support the refugees they resettle.</p><br /> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 15/12/2015 15:56:03 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

436173

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Housing: Refugees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what recent steps his Department has taken to help councils to house refugees.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
	uin	19145
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>Those who have been granted refugee status or humanitarian protection must qualify under local rules set by the relevant local authority and have sufficient priority under the local authority’s allocation scheme to be eligible for social housing, just as anyone else.</p><p>At the Spending Review the Government committed £129 million to assist with local authority costs over years 2-5 for those local authorities who are resettlling refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. This is unringfenced funding and it will be for local authorities to decide how to use the funding to support the refugees they resettle.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 15/12/2015 15:55:02 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

436180

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what financial support his Department plans to provide to local authorities to resettle Syrian refugees in years two to five of the vulnerable persons relocation scheme.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Dorset and North Poole
	tabling member printed	Michael Tomlinson
	uin	19243
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2015 answer text <p>At the Spending Review the Government committed around £130 million to assist with local authority costs over years 2-5 of the scheme. This will be allocated on a tariff basis over four years, tapering from £5,000 per person in their second year in the UK, to £1,000 per person in year five. There will also be support for education and healthcare, and a special cases fund to assist the most vulnerable refugees.</p><br /> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 15/12/2015 15:50:20 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4497 label Biography information for Michael Tomlinson

438872

	registered interest
	date	16/12/2015
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, which local authorities have received how many Syrian refugees.
	tabling member constituency	Southport
	tabling member printed	John Pugh
	uin	20487
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend, the Prime Minister announced on 16 December that we have delivered on the promise to resettle 1,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees before Christmas. We can also confirm that as of the beginning of December 2015, 55 local authorities across the UK had signed up to participate in the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and made confirmed offers of places.</p><p>In order to help protect the privacy of those arriving, we will not be giving a running commentary on location or numbers of persons resettled. Notwithstanding, the Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics. The next set of figures will be in the quarterly release in February 2016 and will cover the period October-December 2015. This adheres to the standard practice for the release of information about the work of the Department, ensuring statistics are published properly in a way which is open and accessible to all.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 11/01/2016 16:47:31 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1454 label Biography information for John Pugh

451189

	registered interest
	date	08/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how much funding the Government is providing to local authorities for each refugee for housing under the Syrian resettlement scheme (a) in London and (b) outside London.
	tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
	tabling member printed	Tom Brake
	uin	26220
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/02/2016 answer text <p>The first 12 months of local authorities’ resettlement costs are centrally funded using the overseas aid budget. In years 2-5, local authorities receive a per person tariff tapering from £5,000 to £1,000 over the four years. This is unringfenced funding and it is for local authorities to decide how best to use it to support refugees.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 16/02/2016 13:00:23 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

453113

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many Syrian nationals have resettled in each region under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme since March 2014.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	27501
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2016 answer text <p>My rt. hon. Friend, the Prime Minister confirmed on 7 September 2015 that the UK would resettle an additional 20,000 Syrian refugees using the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees process for identifying and resettling refugees. On 16 December he announced that the Government had met its target of resettling 1,000 Syrian refugees by Christmas.</p><p>The Home Office is committed to publishing data on the number of people resettled under the programme as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The next set of figures will be in the quarterly release on 25 May 2016 and will cover the period January - March 2016. These numbers will be updated each quarter.</p><p>Participation in the Resettlement Scheme is voluntary by local authorities, and some do not wish to have their participation published. As such, the statistics do not include the local authority or region to which people are resettled.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 02/03/2016 16:59:58 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

453114

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2016
	answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
	answering dept id	7
	answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
	answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of Syrian nationals resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme since March 2014 were housed under the COMPASS accommodation contract agreements.
	tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
	tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
	uin	27503
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2016 answer text <p>Syrian nationals resettled in the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme are not housed under the COMPASS accommodation contract agreements. These agreements are only for asylum seekers.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 01/03/2016 17:09:30 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett