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date	25/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child asylum applicants have been refused accommodation by a local authority in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	50233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>No unaccompanied asylum seeking children have been refused accommodation by local authorities.</p><p>Under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 local authorities have a duty to provide accommodation to any child in need who requires it.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 31/10/2016 16:52:41 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

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date	21/10/2016
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Foster Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in local authority care are awaiting placement with foster parents.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	49745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not collect this information. If any children are awaiting placement with foster carers, that information will be kept at local authority level. As at March 2015 there were 73,845 approved foster carers in England.</p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Edward Timpson question first answered 31/10/2016 16:48:42 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies