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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2017-01-17more like thismore than 2017-01-17
answering body
Home Office more like this
answering dept id 1 more like this
answering dept short name Home Office more like this
answering dept sort name Home Office more like this
hansard heading Refugees: Children more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child refugees are planned to be resettled in the UK in 2017. more like this
tabling member constituency York Central more like this
tabling member printed
Rachael Maskell more like this
uin 60471 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2017-01-20more like thismore than 2017-01-20
answer text <p>From within Europe, we will continue to meet our obligations under the Dublin Regulation and more unaccompanied children will be transferred to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act in the coming months. An announcement will be made in due course on the total number of children to be transferred to the UK under the Immigration Act.</p><p>From outside of Europe, the Government has committed to resettle up to 3,000 individuals under the Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme (VCRS) from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by the end of this Parliament, the majority of which will be children. We will also resettle 20,000 Syrians under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPR) over the same period. Around half of those resettled under the Syrian VPR so far are children. We do not publish the numbers to be resettled in a given year; whilst we have an internal trajectory, we will manage the flows based on need and in support of the wellbeing of the people and communities involved, rather than rushing to meet targets.</p>
answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby more like this
answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill more like this
question first answered
less than 2017-01-20T15:01:05.517Zmore like thismore than 2017-01-20T15:01:05.517Z
answering member
1562
label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill more like this
tabling member
4471
label Biography information for Rachael Maskell more like this