Written Question·Home Office·UIN 53885

Yazidis: Resettlement

Tabled: 21 May 2025

Answered: 2 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Brendan O'Hara

Scottish National Party — Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Yazidis have been resettled to the UK from (a) Iraq and (b) Syria in each year since 2014.

Answer

Seema Malhotra

The UK partners with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to resettle refugees in accordance with their standard resettlement criteria.Individual ethnic and religious backgrounds are not part of this consideration, and the Home Office...

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