Tag: Emma Lewell-Buck

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck on 2015-09-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether funding allocated to local authorities for resettling Syrian refugees will be restricted to one year.

Richard Harrington

The first 12 months of a refugee’s resettlement costs are fully funded by central government using the overseas aid budget. To ensure that local authorities can plan ahead and continue to respond to the overwhelmingly generous response of the British people, we will also provide additional funding to assist with costs incurred after year one.

We will be working closely with local government to develop the process for drawing down the funding, including to those councils offering help under the scheme.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mrs Emma Lewell-Buck on 2014-05-07.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what the Government’s political and constitutional reform priorities are for the remainder of the present Parliament.

Mr Nick Clegg

The Government continues to work on political and constitutional reform, particularly on devolving more powers from Whitehall to our cities and regions.

Work also continues on the implementation of Individual Electoral Registration, recall of MPs and implementing the statutory register of consultant lobbyists.