Written question asked by Baroness Teather (Liberal Democrat) on Friday, 20 February 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 24 February 2015. It was answered by James Brokenshire (Conservative) on Monday, 2 March 2015 on behalf of the Home Office.

Asylum: Syria

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been referred to her Department by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for resettlement in the UK through the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme to date.

Answer: As of 31 December 2014, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had referred 260 people for consideration under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons
Relocation (VPR) scheme. This data has not previously been published, is based on management information only, and has not therefore been subject to the detailed checks that apply to National Statistics publications.

In the same period to 31 December, as already published through the quarterly release of Home Office statistics, 143 people had arrived in the UK under the VPR scheme.

Secondary information