Only one Syrian refugee family has been housed in Wandsworth, it was revealed in last week’s full council meeting.

Twice this year the council has issued appeals to residents, businesses and other organisations to “provide a secure and safe home” for Syrian refugees resettling in Wandsworth.

But Labour is concerned families are not being offered “favourable deals” to do so and questioned whether the council was “serious” about its part in the refugee crisis.

A spokesperson for Wandsworth Council said: “The council takes its humanitarian obligations very seriously indeed.

“In addition to this Syrian family, we are currently looking after 72 children, including some from Syria, who arrived in the UK without parents or other adult relatives, while in the past year alone we have helped 25 other households who’ve been granted asylum or permission to remain in the UK having fled 14 other countries.”

Fleur Anderson, community services speaker for Wandsworth Labour said: “This time last year Wandsworth Labour asked the Council to commit to welcoming at least ten Syrian refugee families within a year.

“At the time, Wandsworth's then Cabinet Member for Housing said we shouldn't limit the number of families we welcomed but 'should just take as many families as we can accommodate'.”

“However, despite these warm words, to date Wandsworth has welcomed only one Syrian refugee family under the Vulnerable People's Relocation Scheme, a woefully inadequate response to the global refugee crisis.”

The government has pledged to take in 20,000 Syrian refugees and 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children by 2020 but Councillor Anderson said “this will only happen if councils take their fair share”.

She voiced concern that Wandsworth landlords willing to house refugees “may be offered less favourable deals” than landlords willing to house the borough's homeless families.

Labour is calling on the council to review this “urgently”.

Under the Government’s scheme, homes for refugees need to be self-contained, have at least two bedrooms and be available on an assured shorthold tenancy for a minimum of 24 months.