Claim: There are 23,000 Syrian refugees coming to the UK.
Fact-check: Two UK schemes have resettled 11,000 Syrian refugees - Full Fact
Verdict: that's a target for 2020, based on two government resettlement schemes. of that target, 20,000 are specifically from the syrian conflict. these schemes aren't the only way for refugees to enter the uk.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joël Reland
Date published: 2018-02-23T00:00:00