PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Refugees: Children (7 November 2017)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, by what date she expects that the Government will have fulfilled its commitment to transfer 480 children under the Dubs scheme.
Asked by:
Alex Burghart (Conservative)
Asked by:
Alex Burghart (Conservative)
Answer
We are fully committed to transferring 480 unaccompanied children from Europe under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. A number of children have arrived from France under section 67 in recent weeks and transfers are ongoing.
We are working very closely with Member States, as well as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGO partners to identify and transfer children safely to the UK in line with each individual Member State’s national laws. More eligible children will be transferred from Europe in due course.
Answered by:
Sir Brandon Lewis (Conservative)
15 November 2017
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