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<p>The majority of refugees displaced from Syria, an estimated 3.8 million people,
remain in countries neighbouring Syria. That is why the Government has committed £700
million to the emergency response in the region, the second largest bilateral contribution
after the USA, helping hundreds of thousands of people in need. <br><br>We have not
undertaken a formal assessment of the motivation for Syrian migrants to try to reach
the European Union, or the routes they choose to get here. However, given the scale
of the crisis in Syria and the hardship and human suffering it has caused, it is to
be expected that some Syrians will seek to leave the region by whatever routes are
available.</p><p>With millions of people in need in Syria and the region, the Government
believes that humanitarian aid and actively seeking to end the conflict are the most
effective ways for the UK to help the majority of those displaced, rather than larger
scale resettlement. We have made our position on this clear in relevant discussions
with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for example at the
UNHCR Global Resettlement Pledging Conference in Geneva on 9 December 2014. We also
liaise regularly with the UNHCR at a working level about the relocation of particularly
vulnerable displaced Syrians to the UK under the UK’s Vulnerable Persons Relocation
(VPR) scheme.</p><p> </p>
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