Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has had with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees on missing asylum-seeking minors.

The Home Office engages with a range of internal and external stakeholders in relation to the provision of support and accommodation to destitute asylum seekers, through a variety of channels.

There have not been any bilateral discussions between the Home Office and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on missing asylum seeking children.

UNHCR do attend the Strategic Engagement Groups which, together with the associated sub-groups, are the Home Office’s principal engagement forums with external asylum and resettlement Non-Government Organisations and voluntary sector stakeholders.