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Mr. Gerrard
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what information she has obtained regarding the numbers of refugees from Kosovo who are to be offered protection in other EU countries. [81996]
Mr. Foulkes
The latest figures we have received from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on offers of temporary protection by other EU countries are as follows:
- Austria: up to 5,000
- Belgium: up to 1,200
- Denmark: initially 1,500
- Finland: 1,000
- France: no figure stated (so far over 770 accepted)
- Germany: 10,000 Greece: 5,000
- Ireland: initially 1,000
- Netherlands: 2,000
- Portugal: 1,500
- Spain: some thousands
- Sweden: 5,600.