Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:49 pm on 14 June 2022.
Diolch yn fawr, Sioned Williams. Thank you for acknowledging the huge challenge, but also the responsibilities that we have to get this right in terms of the way in which we provide our support. As I said in my statement on the supersponsor scheme, we developed it as the safest route for our refugees from Ukraine, but, as you will appreciate, even from the latest figures, we now have, in fact, 3,435 visas issued under that supersponsor scheme, and we want to make sure that we can accommodate. They won't necessarily all come anyway in terms of turning into arrivals, as outlined in the earlier question, because some of them have ticked more than one box in terms of which route they come through. But, clearly, we have a commitment to meet that need. Anyone who was actually in the system by Friday, when the scheme was paused, those are all progressing, those applications. It's just that you couldn't tick that box from Friday in terms of the supersponsor route. So, that would apply to new applicants, but they might well have ticked the other box in terms of being able to come through the individual sponsor scheme. But we will reopen that as quickly as possible—I've said this month. We will reopen that, and I will come back to the Senedd to update you on this.