Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will introduce a central database of unaccompanied children entering the UK.

All asylum claimants, including unaccompanied children, are recorded on the Home Office’s Case Information Database (CID) system. Information recorded on this system is used to publish a range of data about asylum claims from unaccompanied children, which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2017/how-many-people-do-we-grant-asylum-or-protection-to