Member

The number of people we can support through safe and legal routes depends on a variety of factors, including local authority capacity for supporting refugees. An all-encompassing humanitarian travel permit scheme would undermine our immigration system, and we would need to redistribute considerable resources to support such a route. I trust that the House will be assured of the Government’s position in these areas, as we have set out before, and assure the House that further details will be set out in due course following the immigration White Paper.