Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to discuss with the French Minister of the Interior (a) the transfer of refugees for family reunification (b) the creation of safe and legal routes for child refugees and vulnerable adults and (c) the creation of reception centres for child refugees in France while their family reunification applications are processed.

The Home Secretary met with French Interior Minister Collomb, at the UK France summit on 18 January 2018. They discussed a range of issues in relation to UK and France’s joint efforts to manage illegal migration, including our shared border and our ongoing commitment to effectively implement respective obligations to unaccompanied children and families.

Further details can be found in my Written Ministerial Statement of 19 January 2018.