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<p>In relation to the Children’s Commissioners correspondence, for unaccompanied asylum-seeking
children (UASC) who have been accommodated in hotels, the Home Office holds data on
all variables outlined in the ‘data request summary’ excluding variable 8 and 23.</p><p>There
were elements of the data requested which were not held in an electronically retrievable
form and would have required the manual check of over 5,000 records. The Home Office
were unable to provide all of the data as it would have required a high level of manual
resource to obtain at a time of high operation demands. The Home Office did reach
out to the Children’s Commissioners office in May 2023 to offer an alternative option
to enable the commissioner to review children’s records, although this offer was turned
down.</p>
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