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<p>We are continuing to work productively with local authorities and International
Partners to deliver the Government’s target to settle 20,000 Syrian refugees by the
end of this Parliament.</p><p>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. The last set of statistics, published
on 25 February 2016 showed that in 2015, 1,194 Syrians were relocated to the UK under
the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme, including 1,085 who arrived in
the last quarter of 2015.</p><p>These numbers will be updated each quarter. The next
set of figures will be in the quarterly release on 26 May 2016 and will cover the
period January – March 2016.</p>
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