To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) principal applicants and (b) dependants have been admitted to the United Kingdom under the Gateway Refugee Resettlement Programme in each year since the scheme commenced. (157967)

[holding answer 15 October 2007]: The Gateway Protection Programme became operational in the financial year 2004-05 when 64 principal applicants and 86 dependants were admitted to the UK. In 2005-06 56 principal applicants and 192 dependants were admitted and in 2006-07 139 principal applicants and 368 dependants were admitted to the UK under the Gateway resettlement programme.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what quota the Government set for the maximum number of admissions under the Gateway Refugee Resettlement Programme in each year since the scheme commenced; and what quotas have been set for future years. (157968)

[holding answer 15 October 2007]: Since the Gateway Protection Programme commenced in 2004 the Government have set the quota at 500 refugees per financial year. The Government have not yet set the quota for future years.