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<p>Pursuant to the Minister for Modern Slavery and Organised Crime's answer of 14
July 2014: Column 494W, there are no plans at present to extend the scheme andwe will
continue to work closely with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
in the region to identify the exceptional cases whose needsare so profound that they
need to be resettled to a country like the UK. Groups of Syrians are being brought
to the UK on a regular basis under the scheme. We envisage relocating several hundred
people under the scheme over the next three years and we are on course to do so. Given
the scale of the crisis, we believe that humanitarian aid and ending the crisis are
the most effective way to help the majority of refugees, and ease the burden on their
host countries. The UK has donated £700 million to the relief effort in Syria. UK
funding is helping hundreds of thousands of refugees.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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