Paul Scully – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Paul Scully on 2015-12-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, when the Government will inform local authorities of the increased funding that will be available for housing Syrian refugees.

Richard Harrington

The first 12 months of a refugee’s resettlement costs are funded by Government using the Overseas Development Aid budget.

In November 2015 the Government announced around £129 million to assist with local authority costs over years 2-5 for those local authorities who are resettlling refugees under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. This is unringfenced funding and it will be for local authorities to decide how to use the funding to support the refugees they resettle.