Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme

We were so relieved to hear that the Secretary of State was going to announce a scheme to allow U...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her questions and what I think was her support for our scheme....

My right hon. Friend has generated a great deal of progress in the last few days, but he will und...

Over the last 10 days, my right hon. Friend has been in touch with me daily to outline offers of ...

We come to SNP spokesperson Stuart C. McDonald.

I, too, start by thanking people across the UK who have come forward with incredibly generous off...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his support for the scheme. He made the point about ensuring that ...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. He has answered many of the questions that arose over...

My right hon. Friend makes three good points. We are working this week with civil society and NGO...

I call the Chair of the Select Committee on Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

I think that it is accepted in principle there will be general support for a scheme that allows i...

I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee for his questions. The amount of money we are ...

With a three-year visa but only six months of guaranteed accommodation, will people have any tena...

It is our expectation that those who commit to have someone in their home for six months are unde...

I want to go back to the Secretary of State’s point when he highlighted that over 14,000 Afghan r...

I have enormous sympathy for the hon. Lady. One of the reasons why Lord Harrington has joined my ...

I strongly welcome the scheme that my right hon. Friend has set out. It was Sir Nicholas Winton w...

My right hon. Friend makes a characteristically compassionate and acute point. One of the areas o...

This is significant and welcome progress, even if I suspect it still leaves us somewhere short of...

I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. Of course, the scheme we are introducing today is...

I very much welcome the conduit for the immense generosity of the British public that my right ho...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point, and this is a cross-Government, and beyond Government ef...

The Secretary of State said that the webpage to volunteer to sponsor a Ukrainian refugee has gone...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his real-time update. I am sorry if Paul Brand’s internet...

I welcome today’s announcement, and I have been inundated by offers from my constituents who have...

I know my hon. Friend has already been working with her constituents in west Berkshire to do ever...

Like many, I was confused by the Secretary of State’s suggestion that sponsors could match with r...

They absolutely will have access to that support. Anyone who acts as a sponsor will face light-to...

I very much welcome this announcement, and I am grateful to the Secretary of State and the Govern...

My right hon. Friend and the One Nation group of Conservative MPs helped in the development of ou...

The Government’s response to the refugee crisis so far has shamed our country and damaged our rep...

Friday.

My right hon. Friend is quite right to have a light-touch approach to vetting for those seeking s...

Absolutely. It will be a national vetting process initially, with local authorities following up....

My local authority, Cyngor Gwynedd, has been inundated with warm-hearted offers of accommodation ...

In the conversations that I have had with the Welsh Government, they have been anxious about co-o...

May I first welcome the appointment of Lord Harrington of Watford to his post? Yesterday, I spent...

People of all faiths and none have stepped up to demonstrate their support for those fleeing pers...

As with previous refugee crises, the Government’s response to the Ukraine crisis has been patheti...

Order. Just before the Secretary of State answers that, the hon. Gentleman knows that his questio...

On the hon. Gentleman’s individual case, Home Office officials are working incredibly hard every ...

I applaud the generosity of the scheme. It is a shame that the Opposition have been on a scavenge...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for making those points. To provide people with the jobs and supp...

I have been humbled by the response of the people of Argyll and Bute who have contacted me alread...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right: the welcome that local authorities and people across Scot...

I strongly welcome the scheme that my right hon. Friend set out, but may I urge him to ensure tha...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for his common-sense perspective, which I completely s...

My constituency has a proud record of welcoming refugees. Of the families who require settlement ...

The hon. Lady makes a very important point. I know what a passionate and effective spokesperson s...

I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. I know that Buckinghamshire Council stands rea...

The funding we will make available will cover general local authority costs. There will be an add...

I seek some clarifications from the Secretary of State. Charities such as Refugees at Home arrang...

On the first point, Refugees at Home has done an amazing job in helping to support the existing s...

May I ask for an official point of contact for a very valuable resource, the Council for At-Risk ...

I was able to talk to a leading academic at the University of Manchester earlier today who is wor...

The media contribution yesterday and the statement this afternoon have spurred on optimistic aspi...

Absolutely. I have two points to make. First, we know the political situation in Northern Ireland...

The people of Stroud are extremely big-hearted and they want to help in as many ways as possible,...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions has been wor...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s announcement, and we are grateful to Lord Harrington for havin...

I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee. Lord Harrington and I have been seeking to as...

I welcome this important announcement. My constituents in the Scottish Borders are desperate to h...

Absolutely. We are of course working with the Scottish Government, and the scheme that will go li...

Britain and Ireland are both surrounded by water, and neither is part of Schengen, yet Ireland ha...

I will never criticise the Irish Government.

The big society is back, and it is welcome, as are the expansion of the family scheme and the new...

That will happen as quickly as possible, not least because of the impassioned advocacy of my hon....

Many of my constituents have expressed to me their concern that the UK is simply not doing enough...

The good news is that the hon. Lady’s predecessor as Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts—...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his hard work to operationalise this system. It will provide a s...

My hon. Friend makes some good points. My hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Steve Brine) sai...

I also welcome this scheme, and my constituents have been contacting me about what they can do to...

I appreciate that there is pressure on the Afghan resettlement scheme. When it was set up, it was...

Can I ask my right hon. Friend whether any consideration has been given to establishing an advanc...

My right hon. Friend has a distinguished record when it comes to helping people in conflict areas...

I have spoken to senior councillors in Dundee over the last week, and the city council remains op...

That is what we want to do.

I thank my right hon. Friend for today’s announcement. Can he confirm that, if households are tak...

Yes, the individuals will.

Both my local boroughs, Lambeth and Southwark, stand ready and willing to welcome refugees from U...

I do not believe that we have cut local government out of the scheme, but of course I am committe...

Many older people, particularly the widowed, who live alone in larger homes with plenty of spare ...

As I mentioned earlier, in the context of the Home Secretary’s announcement last week, we want to...

The Secretary of State says he hopes that many people will be ready to open their home, but it se...

The Home Secretary and I will do everything possible to improve the operation of the scheme, in l...

I commend my right hon. Friend for the urgency he has brought to this issue, but may I press him ...

We absolutely will, and I recognise that individuals are already making offers. I had conversatio...

Following a really successful rally yesterday in which the people of Newport West and surrounding...

The hon. Lady makes a very important point. It is critical that we ensure data is shared in a tim...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. We all recognise that, in time, people will be able t...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care moved ...

Have the United Kingdom Government set a cap, either actual or notional, on how many refugees we ...

We will do everything possible to make sure the Scottish Government are satisfied.

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcement. On the safeguarding of vulnerable refugees, I list...

Local government, who are experts in safeguarding.

The First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said at the weekend that visas should not be necessa...

I am sorry that the hon. Lady feels as she does. I should say that, when I was talking to represe...

I thank my right hon. Friend on behalf of East Devon for the Homes for Ukraine scheme. I have alr...

My hon. Friend is right. First, we need a light-touch approach that means that, when individuals ...

May I press the Secretary of State again on the question that my hon. Friend the Member for Ayr, ...

First, there is no cap overall on the number of people who can benefit. Secondly, as I mentioned,...

Luton welcomes refugees. We stepped up to welcome any Afghan refugees, and our community is now s...

There are at least two very important points there. First, of course we need to move faster to mo...

Bryce Cunningham of Mossgiel farm in my constituency has already done a fantastic job of organisi...

Although I do not know all the details of the hon. Gentleman’s constituent, it seems to me that w...

May I press the Secretary of State further on the situation in respect of Northern Ireland? Will ...

On the first point, I believe that, unless told otherwise and unless there is any barrier—by whic...

I thank the Secretary of State for thoroughly answering a large number of important questions.