Asylum seekers and refugees

Fact checks about refugees and asylum seekers in the UK

20 September 2016

Unaccompanied refugee children in Europe

How many unaccompanied children are in Europe and how many are claiming asylum here?

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Unaccompanied refugee children in Europe
31 August 2016

Counting the number of migrants in the Calais ‘jungle’

Officials and charities disagree over an extra 2,000 migrants in the Calais camp. We look at how both got their figures.

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Counting the number of migrants in the Calais ‘jungle’
3 August 2016

Where are the UK's refugees?

Reports that over 80% of councils have taken in no Syrian refugees under the main government resettlement programme are correct - up to a point.

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Where are the UK's refugees?
25 July 2016

Refugees in Lebanon and the UK

Exact figures are hard to come by, but it seems correct to say that there are 10 times as many refugees in Lebanon as in the UK.

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Refugees in Lebanon and the UK
16 November 2015

UK aid to Syria

David Cameron claims that the UK is the second largest contributor of humanitarian aid in the Syrian crisis. This is right, according to the United Nations.

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UK aid to Syria
3 September 2015

Has the UK only taken in 216 Syrian refugees?

A number of outlets are claiming that the UK has taken in so few Syrian refugees that you could fit them all on a tube train. This is wrong.

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Has the UK only taken in 216 Syrian refugees?

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