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1642765

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
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 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are accommodated in hotels.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	188320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>We take the safety of those in our care seriously. We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in hotels are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses. All contingency sites have security staff on site 24/7 and providers liaise closely with local police to ensure the welfare and safety of vulnerable residents.</p><p>There are currently no unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in hotels and there are 154 UASC still missing.</p><p> </p><p>If any child goes missing the MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed. A multi-agency, missing persons meeting is chaired by the local authority to establish the young person's whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe. Similar protocols within police forces have safely reduced the number of missing episodes from placements by 36%.</p><p>The Home Office continue to work with the police and local authorities to ensure the children in our care are safe and the Police are responsible for locating any missing children.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 188321 question first answered 12/06/2023 16:54:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1642766

registered interest
date	07/06/2023
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 unaccompanied asylum seeking children who have gone missing from hotel accommodation remain unaccounted for as of 7 June 2023.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow Central
tabling member printed	Alison Thewliss
uin	188321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>We take the safety of those in our care seriously. We have robust safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in hotels are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses. All contingency sites have security staff on site 24/7 and providers liaise closely with local police to ensure the welfare and safety of vulnerable residents.</p><p>There are currently no unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) in hotels and there are 154 UASC still missing.</p><p> </p><p>If any child goes missing the MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed. A multi-agency, missing persons meeting is chaired by the local authority to establish the young person's whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe. Similar protocols within police forces have safely reduced the number of missing episodes from placements by 36%.</p><p>The Home Office continue to work with the police and local authorities to ensure the children in our care are safe and the Police are responsible for locating any missing children.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 188320 question first answered 12/06/2023 16:54:58 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4430 label Biography information for Alison Thewliss

1642331

registered interest
date	06/06/2023
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 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been transferred to each local authority in Wales in each month since the National Transfer Scheme became mandatory.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	188076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/06/2023 answer text <p>Ministers made the decision to mandate participation in the National Transfer Scheme (NTS) and directed local authorities in Wales to participate on 14 December 2021.</p><p>Mandatory NTS transfers began 14 December 2021, with any transfers since 23 November 2021 counting towards local authorities' allocations under the mandated scheme.</p><p>NTS data is published at <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Frasi-resettlement-asylum-support-and-integration-data-q1-2023&amp;data=05%7C01%7CASRA-briefingcorrespondence%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7Ce216ed24481e4097c14b08db6749f4ce%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638217339548697414%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=h%2Fmow4KvbTkBaT6fAIWrjMj2MxpTDXMdYI4Xsv3MWLU%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">RASI (Resettlement, Asylum Support and Integration) data: Q1 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The National Transfer Scheme has seen 4,388 children transferred to local authorities between 1 October 2021 and 31 March 2023. Of the 4,388 children transferred in this period, 223 were transferred to local authorities in Wales. It is not possible to split the data into different local authority areas within Wales.</p><p>As the data is published quarterly, it is also not possible to split out the number of transfers from a specific date mid quarter. Therefore, some of the 223 children quoted may have been transferred under the voluntary scheme in the weeks prior to when the NTS was mandated (between 1 October 2021 and 23 November 2021).</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 12/06/2023 14:52:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

1640149

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
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, what recent assessment she has made of the safeguarding implications of children asylum seekers being housed in homes of multiple occupancy.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	186685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2023 answer text <p>House in Multiple Occupancy (HMO) properties will be used mainly for single adults but in some cases for families. Families will not, however, share properties with single male adults. No unaccompanied minors will be placed in an HMO property by the Home Office. The Home Office accommodation contracts set out clear minimum standards for all asylum accommodation. This is to ensure compliance with standards similar to those used in local authority licensing.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/06/2023 13:56:38 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1640150

registered interest
date	24/05/2023
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, whether unaccompanied asylum-seeking children will be housed in homes of multiple occupancy.
tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
uin	186686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/06/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office will not accommodate Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) in an Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract (AASC) Houses in Multiple Occupancy (HMO) properties.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/06/2023 09:57:53 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra

1626326

registered interest
date	09/05/2023
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, if she will take steps to ensure that children who are asylum seekers remain in areas local to their schools.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	184133
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/05/2023 answer text <p>Guidance can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-accommodation-requests-policy" target="_blank">Asylum accommodation requests: caseworker guidanc https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-accommodation-requests-policye - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>. The pressures on the asylum estate means accommodation must be on a ‘no choice basis’. However, children who are asylum seekers and in their final school or college year leading up to their GCSE, Scottish Highers, AS or A-level exams may remain accommodated in that particular area to allow them to complete exams, provided that they have been enrolled at that school for a significant part of the previous school year.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 17/05/2023 12:33:35 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1623979

registered interest
date	26/04/2023
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, what recent assessment she has made of the impact of the new regulations for age assessments for asylum seekers on the level of safeguarding risk arising from adults pretending to be children.
tabling member constituency	Solihull
tabling member printed	Julian Knight
uin	182881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/05/2023 answer text <p>The National Age Assessment Board (NAAB) launched on 31 March 2023. The NAAB aims to make age assessments more consistent and robust from the outset, reducing the safeguarding risks of individuals being incorrectly assessed. The service is currently limited to working with a small number of local authorities in London and West Midland regions with a view to expanding out nationally as we build up capacity. We will continue to monitor the impact of the National Age Assessment Board on customer behaviour.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 09/05/2023 15:29:40 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4410 label Biography information for Julian Knight

1609168

registered interest
date	30/03/2023
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 children her Department forecasts will be subject to the duty to remove under clause 2 of the Illegal Migration Bill in 2024.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Sir Stephen Timms
uin	177691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2023 answer text <p>As set out in clause 1(1), the purpose of the Bill is to prevent and deter unlawful migration, and in particular migration by unsafe and illegal routes, by requiring the Home Secretary to return illegal migrants to their home country or remove them to a safe third country. The duty to make arrangements for removal in clause 2 does not apply to unaccompanied children, although there is a power to remove them under clause 3. An economic impact assessment will be published for the Bill in due course.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 18/04/2023 11:08:59 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1607057

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
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 and what proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who went missing were subsequently found and returned to safety in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	173049
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of those in our care is our primary concern. We have safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in hotels are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses. All contingency sites have security staff on site and providers liaise closely with local police to ensure the welfare and safety of vulnerable residents.</p><p>Since July 2021, when unaccompanied asylum seeking children were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 447 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). 186 of these young people are still missing.</p><p>This is based on local management information and therefore liable to change.</p><p>If a young person goes missing from a care setting, including a UASC hotel, the MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed. A multi-agency, missing persons meeting is chaired by the local authority to establish the young person's whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe. When used correctly, similar protocols within police forces have safely reduced the number of missing episodes from placements by 36%.</p><p>The Home Office work with the police and local authorities to ensure the children in our care are safe and the Police are responsible for locating any missing children.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 173050 question first answered 03/04/2023 15:04:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1607058

registered interest
date	24/03/2023
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, what recent steps she has taken to help (a) find and return to safety and (b) prevent the further disappearance of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	173050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/04/2023 answer text <p>The safety and wellbeing of those in our care is our primary concern. We have safeguarding procedures in place to ensure all young people in hotels are safe and supported as we seek urgent placements with a local authority.</p><p>Young people are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses. All contingency sites have security staff on site and providers liaise closely with local police to ensure the welfare and safety of vulnerable residents.</p><p>Since July 2021, when unaccompanied asylum seeking children were first accommodated in hotels, there have been 447 missing episodes (the term episode used as some children have gone missing been located and subsequently gone missing again). 186 of these young people are still missing.</p><p>This is based on local management information and therefore liable to change.</p><p>If a young person goes missing from a care setting, including a UASC hotel, the MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed. A multi-agency, missing persons meeting is chaired by the local authority to establish the young person's whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe. When used correctly, similar protocols within police forces have safely reduced the number of missing episodes from placements by 36%.</p><p>The Home Office work with the police and local authorities to ensure the children in our care are safe and the Police are responsible for locating any missing children.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 173049 question first answered 03/04/2023 15:04:00 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq