PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Refugees: Children (17 January 2017)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied child refugees have been accepted into (a) York Central constituency, (b) York Local Authority area, (c) Yorkshire and the Humber region and (d) the UK since the passing of the Immigration Act 2016.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

I am grateful to local authorities across Yorkshire for their participation in the National Transfer Scheme and them looking after unaccompanied children both brought to the UK under s.67 of the Immigration Act 2016 and that arrived in the UK as spontaneous asylum seekers. Since October 2016, approximately 200 of the children that were brought over from France as part of the Calais camp clearance were transferred as a result of them meeting the criteria for section 67 of the Immigration Act. A regional, local authority and constituency breakdown is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Sir Robert Goodwill (Conservative)
20 January 2017