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<p><del class="ministerial">The Home Office will set out its approach to evaluating
the Government’s refugee resettlement schemes in due course outlining the scope of
the evaluation and the frequency of data collection.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">The
evaluation approach is expected to draw on the mixed-methods approach used to evaluate
the previous Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement
Scheme. It is expected this will include analysis of data such as numbers of arrivals
over time and cohort characteristics, as well as the collection of data on refugees
against a range of indicators of integration, such as education, employment, language
skills, housing and health, with the aim of better understanding barriers to integration
and identifying how best to support resettled refugees’ longer-term integration into
life in the UK.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">It is intended that the
products of this evaluation will be made publicly available once the evaluation has
concluded.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial">This Government introduced
two new schemes: the Ukraine Family Scheme announced on 4 March, and the ‘Homes for
Ukraine’ Scheme announced by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing &
Communities on 14 March</del></p><p><br /><del class="ministerial"> The Ukrainian
Schemes have been designed in light of very different circumstances to those which
led to the Government’s Syrian and Afghan resettlement schemes.</del></p><p> </p><p><del
class="ministerial">The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is responsible
for the Homes for Ukraine scheme.</del></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">On
31 January 2022, the Home Office published data on the characteristics of British
National (Overseas) visa holders, which is available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/survey-of-hong-kong-british-national-overseas-visa-holders-2021"
target="_blank">Survey of Hong Kong British National (Overseas) visa holders 2021
- GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Home Office has
not produced any further evaluation of the Hong Kong BN(O) route. We are committed
to undertaking appropriate evaluation of government programmes to inform decisions
on whether they should be continued, expanded, modified or stopped. Plans for evaluation
of the scheme will remain under review.</ins></p>
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