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	registered interest
	date	10/09/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many unaccompanied children have been transferred since June to the care of councils since arriving in England from crossing the English Channel; to list the countries of origin of such children, including the number of children for each such country;  what their policy is in regard to the long term needs and care of these children; and what plans they have to make the National Transfer Scheme compulsory.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL8010
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to helping and supporting children in need of international protection. Since 2010, the UK has received over 23,700 asylum claims from unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC).</p><p>The National Transfer Scheme (NTS) supports local authorities to transfer responsibility for these children to another participating local authority and seeks to achieve a fairer allocation of caring responsibilities across the country so that all children get the care and support they need.</p><p>We publish data on the number of transfers completed under the scheme each quarter as part of the Home Office Migration Transparency Data (NTS_01), which is available on GOV.UK. As at June 2020, over 1,050 children had been transferred under the scheme since it began. We do not currently publish a nationality breakdown of those children transferred under the scheme, however these children would be a subset of the UASC data published as part of the ‘asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement’ volume of the quarterly Immigration Statistics (Asy_D01), which is also available on GOV.UK.</p><p>UASC have often suffered deep trauma and they should receive the same level of care and support we would expect for any looked after child. In 2017, we published our Safeguarding Strategy for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking and Refugee Children which sets out the Government’s commitments to safeguard and promote their welfare.</p><p>Whilst there are statutory powers to mandate a transfer scheme, our preference is to continue to operate the NTS on a voluntary basis. We recognise a need to achieve a more equitable distribution of UASC and have therefore worked with local government partners to develop proposals to further improve the scheme. On 28 August we launched an informal consultation with local authorities on these proposals. The consultation also seeks views on a potential mandatory approach should participation in the voluntary scheme not achieve a more proportionate distribution of UASC.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/09/2020 16:00:30 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1233552

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	British Nationality: Children
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what were the estimated (1) legal, and (2) administrative, costs of their involvement in the case Project for the Registration of Children as British Citizens v Home Office; and what they estimate such costs to be of any appeal to the judgment of that case.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL8008
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>The information that you have requested on legal and administrative costs is not available. Our systems do not record administrative costs against particular legal cases and as the litigation is ongoing we are not able to provide an accurate assessment of the legal costs.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/09/2020 15:54:02 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1233553

	registered interest
	date	10/09/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Refugees: Employment
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the answer by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay on 9 September (HL Deb, col 820), what plans they have to meet with the Lift the Ban Coalition and Refugee Action to discuss (1) the requests of those organisations, (2) the timeline for the completion of the review into the right to work, and (3) the reasons for the delay in the conclusion of that review to date.
	tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
	uin	HL8009
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/09/2020 answer text <p>Officials will be meeting with Asylum Matters to discuss asylum seeker right to work policy in due course.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 24/09/2020 12:15:04 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool