Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck on 2015-09-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether funding allocated to local authorities for resettling Syrian refugees will be ring-fenced for that purpose.

Richard Harrington

The first 12 months of a refugee’s resettlement costs are fully funded by central government using the overseas aid budget. To ensure that local authorities can plan ahead and continue to respond to the overwhelmingly generous response of the British people, we will also provide additional funding to assist with costs incurred after year one.

We will be working closely with local government to develop the process for drawing down the funding, including to those councils offering help under the scheme.