WHETHER FURTHER UK INTAKE WOULD ENCOURAGE OTHER COUNTRIES
TO TAKE MORE
We have had extensive contacts with United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees and other resettlement
countries, as indicated in the FCO's oral and written
evidence to SCORRI.
If we were to take further quota now, it would clearly be
viewed favourably by those countries we are asking to
us. But
take more in the light of what they have told
there can obviously be no guarantee that they would
respond by taking more
themselves.
[IF PRESSED
Cannot speculate as to the number of refugees we would
need to take in order to
encourage other countries to
accept more].