The Secretary of State says he hopes that many people will be ready to open their home, but it seems that, due to Home Office guidance, none of the 3,000-plus spare rooms offered to Afghan refugees by hosts across the UK has been used. That does not inspire confidence in the Ukrainian scheme, so what steps will he take to ensure that the Ukraine sponsorship scheme is more successful than the Afghan scheme and that Home Office guidance facilitates rather than blocks Ukrainian refugees from settling here in the UK?
Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme
Proceeding contribution from
Patricia Gibson
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 14 March 2022.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme.
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