Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, how biometric data relating to migrant children collected by the police is shared with Immigration Enforcement; whether there is a memorandum of understanding between Hertfordshire Police and Immigration Enforcement on that matter; and for what purposes other than safeguarding children may such data be used.

The Safeguarding Strategy on Unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children, published in November 2017. This information is available on www.gov.uk at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/656425/UASC_Safeguarding_Strategy_2017.pdf