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Written question asked by Andrew Gwynne (Labour) on Monday, 3 September 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 6 September 2018 (named day). It was answered by Caroline Nokes (Conservative) on Thursday, 6 September 2018 on behalf of the Home Office.

White Helmets: North West

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the statement by the Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for International Development, made on 22 July 2018, whether White Helmet volunteers have been resettled in the (a) North West, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Denton and Reddish constituency.

Answer

Together with international partners, the UK is working to resettle members of the White Helmets and their families. Any resettlement to the UK will be in line with the established UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) process for identifying and resettling the most vulnerable refugees. Our prime concern for those coming to the UK under our resettlement schemes is their safety and protection as they arrive in this country. We believe that one way to protect their privacy and support their recovery and integration is to limit the amount of information about them that we make publicly available.

Notwithstanding this the Home Office is committed to publishing data on arrivals in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
169150
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Asylum Syria North West White Helmets
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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