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417359

	registered interest
	date	07/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to provide administrative assistance to EU member states receiving the highest numbers of Syrian refugees to help them to process asylum claims.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	9109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2015 answer text <p>The Government has been very clear that will offer practical assistance to Member states under pressure, both bi-laterally and through the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). We believe it is important to help build asylum and border security capacity and capability in other countries so that they are better able to deal with increased demands on their national systems.</p><p>We have already provided more resource – over 1,000 working days - to support missions coordinated by EASO to other Member States, such as Italy and Greece, than any other Member State. We continue to provide bi-lateral support to the Greek asylum system and on assisted voluntary return of illegal migrants.</p><p>We also support the European Commission’s proposals for Hot Spots that will help ensure that migrants are registered and fingerprinted and that refugees are identified and protected quickly, while those with no need of protection can be returned immediately. We will continue to provide resource and expertise to Member States under pressure as and when required.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 21/09/2015 15:19:39 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

417698

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of refugees that the Government expects to receive under the expanded Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme before the end of this calendar year.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	9418
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>We intend to resettle up to 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament. We will continue to work closely with the UNHCR to identify appropriate cases, prioritising the most vulnerable. As the expanded scheme is based on need and reliant on the UNHCR and other partners to deliver, it is not possible or appropriate to set any sort of annual target, but we are clear that we want to help as many people as we can as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 9413 question first answered 17/09/2015 15:47:25 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

417705

	registered interest
	date	08/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugees the Government expects to receive under the expanded Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme in (a) 2016, (b) 2017, (c) 2018 and (d) 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
	tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
	uin	9413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/09/2015 answer text <p>We intend to resettle up to 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament. We will continue to work closely with the UNHCR to identify appropriate cases, prioritising the most vulnerable. As the expanded scheme is based on need and reliant on the UNHCR and other partners to deliver, it is not possible or appropriate to set any sort of annual target, but we are clear that we want to help as many people as we can as quickly as possible.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 9418 question first answered 17/09/2015 15:47:25 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

419066

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether funding allocated to local authorities for resettling Syrian refugees will be ring-fenced for that purpose.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	10409
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>The first 12 months of a refugee’s resettlement costs are fully funded by central government using the overseas aid budget. To ensure that local authorities can plan ahead and continue to respond to the overwhelmingly generous response of the British people, we will also provide additional funding to assist with costs incurred after year one.</p><p>We will be working closely with local government to develop the process for drawing down the funding, including to those councils offering help under the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 10410 question first answered 26/10/2015 17:29:32 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

419067

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether funding allocated to local authorities for resettling Syrian refugees will be restricted to one year.
	tabling member constituency	South Shields
	tabling member printed	Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck
	uin	10410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>The first 12 months of a refugee’s resettlement costs are fully funded by central government using the overseas aid budget. To ensure that local authorities can plan ahead and continue to respond to the overwhelmingly generous response of the British people, we will also provide additional funding to assist with costs incurred after year one.</p><p>We will be working closely with local government to develop the process for drawing down the funding, including to those councils offering help under the scheme.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington grouped question UIN 10409 question first answered 26/10/2015 17:29:32 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	4277 label Biography information for Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck

419134

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many transit visas her Department has issued to Syrian refugees since May 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Wakefield
	tabling member printed	Mary Creagh
	uin	10516
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>In Q2 2015 (April to June – the latest period for which figures are available) no transit visas have been issued to Syrian refugees.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 14:04:10 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1579 label Biography information for Mary Creagh

419139

	registered interest
	date	16/09/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 8 September 2015 to Question 47 by the Minister of Immigration to the Home Affairs Committee, how many Syrian refugees will be accommodated in order to meet the UNHCR requirement for 130,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees by 2016.
	tabling member constituency	Enfield, Southgate
	tabling member printed	Mr David Burrowes
	uin	10473
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2015 answer text <p>As the Prime Minister announced on 7 September, the Government will expand existing resettlement schemes to resettle 20,000 Syrians in need of protection during this Parliament. This is in addition to the thousands who receive protection in the UK under normal asylum procedures and through the refugee family reunion route. The UK is making a serious and substantial contribution to resettling vulnerable Syrian refugees. We will continue to work with the UNHCR and play our full part in helping these vulnerable people.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 12/10/2015 15:10:26 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1518 label Biography information for Mr David Burrowes

420188

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Syrian refugees arrived in the UK through the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme in September 2015.
	tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
	tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
	uin	11150
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>Since the first arrivals in March 2014 to the end of June 2015, 216 people were relocated to the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Person Resettlement scheme.</p><p>Our statistics will be published quarterly and we will not be giving a running commentary on numbers. Our prime concern is the safety and protection of these very vulnerable people as they arrive in this country. We believe that the best way to protect their privacy and ensure their recovery and integration is to limit the amount of information about them that we make publicly available.</p><p>The Prime Minister has said that we want to see 1,000 Syrian refugees brought to the UK by Christmas. The Government is working closely with local authorities, international delivery partners and the voluntary sector, putting in place the plans and structures to deliver this and ensuring the system is scaled up in a way that protects the interests of all concerned.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 03/11/2015 16:51:44 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

420196

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what resources the Government will make available to local authorities to assist the housing of refugees from Syria.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	10874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2015 answer text <p>The UK has established networks to accommodate and support resettled people. An increase in numbers will require an expansion of current networks. We are working with a wide range of partners including local authorities to ensure people are integrated sensitively into local communities. We are working closely with the Local Government Association on how the funding for this will operate.</p><p>The first 12 months of each refugee’s resettlement costs will be met from the UK’s growing overseas aid budget. After year one we will also provide additional funding to assist with costs incurred in future years.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 03/11/2015 16:53:36 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 23285 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas

420197

	registered interest
	date	09/10/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Syria
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what criteria she will use to determine where in the UK refugees from Syria will be placed.
	tabling member constituency	Wrexham
	tabling member printed	Ian C. Lucas
	uin	10875
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2015 answer text <p>The UK has been operating resettlement schemes for many years and we already have established and effective networks to accommodate and support resettled people.</p><p>Our existing dispersal policy, which has been in place since 1999, is aimed at ensuring an equitable distribution of refugees across the country so that no individual local authority bears a disproportionate share of the burden.</p><p>That is why we will be talking to local authorities and other partners to ensure that capacity can be identified and the impact on those taking new cases can be managed in a fair and controlled way.</p> answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington question first answered 26/10/2015 17:39:42 answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford previous answer version 23286 answering member constituency Watford answering member printed Richard Harrington answering member 4068 label Biography information for Lord Harrington of Watford
	tabling member	1470 label Biography information for Ian C. Lucas