Britain may take Syrian refugees The refugees would be in addition to the 1,500 who have already been granted asylum. Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron said: "I think we are fulfilling our moral obligations to the people of Syria. We are the second largest bilateral aid donor. The money that British taxpayers are providing is providing food and shelter and water and medicine for literally hundreds of thousands of people. We are also fulfilling all our obligations in terms of asylum seekers, because we have taken over a thousand asylum seekers from Syria in recent months. We are also making sure where we can help very vulnerable children who are ill, including a child in a British hospital today, we take action there as well. I don't believe you can solve a refugee crisis of this scale when you have got almost half of the nine million population of Syria either displaced or at risk of displacement with a quota system where countries are taking a few hundred refugees. But he said Britain could take people nonetheless. If there are very difficult cases of people who don't belong in refugee camps who have either been disabled by these attacks, or in very difficult circumstances, I'm happy for us to look at that argument. Britain always plays the right role in these desperate humanitarian crises," he said. He added: "The problem I see is I think some countries are using this quota system as a way of saying 'therefore I have fulfilled my obligations'," Mr Cameron said. When you have got almost half of a nine-million population at risk of displacement, the fact the Finns, or the French or the Swedes are going to take a few hundred people, that is not fulfilling your obligations.