Matt Hancock to house seven Ukrainian refugees and their four dogs

The previous well being secretary will host the household for six months (Image: Getty)

Matt Hancock says he'll dwelling seven Ukrainian refugees and their 4 canine underneath the Houses for Ukraine scheme.

The previous Well being Secretary helps them escape their conflict torn homeland following Russia’s invasion and can welcome the group to his Suffolk property from this week, The Solar On Sunday reported.

Mr Hancock is housing one in every of his constituents’ household from Ukraine – her mom, two sisters, niece, nephew and his associate, alongside along with her nephew’s grandmother.

The Tory MP will host the household for six months after branding the visa course of a ‘problem’.

He advised the paper: ‘I obtained into this by instinctively making a proposal to a constituent whose household was in determined want.’

It comes after the scheme has been broadly criticised by different politicians.

The UK’s Ukrainian visa scheme is ‘unwelcoming’ and including to refugees’ trauma, one peer providing her dwelling to a fleeing household has claimed.

Crossbench peer Baroness Finlay of Llandaff is providing house in her Cardiff dwelling to a mom and two youngsters, however has been ready for three weeks for their visas to be cleared by way of the scheme.

Well being Secretary Matt Hancock throughout a media briefing in Downing Avenue (Image: PA)

She mentioned her husband, Professor Andrew Finlay, spent eight hours filling out varieties for their visa functions on March 18, the day the scheme launched.

‘(The method was) simply so complicated and complex,’ Baroness Finlay mentioned.

She didn't wish to establish the refugee household however mentioned they have been already identified to her and her husband earlier than the invasion.

Baroness Finlay mentioned they needed to course of every of the 4 refugees’ functions individually, which has made her involved they might not be accepted collectively.

Regardless of repeated efforts in individual at a visa data centre and over the cellphone, she mentioned the one data she has acquired from in response has been 4 separate emails to say every applicant is ‘within the system’ to be processed – which arrived on Thursday.

‘The silence is terrible… no person can assist me discover out what’s occurred to those folks’s functions,’ she mentioned.

‘I feel there's a failure of recognition that this uncertainty is including to the trauma that these folks have already skilled.

‘These aren’t simply items of paper, these are folks… and these are individuals who have misplaced all the things.

‘We have to present an atmosphere the place they know that they're welcome and they're secure – how can they really feel welcome?’

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