Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the response to the Urgent Question on Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children on 24 January 2023, Official Report, column 859, whether all (a) contractors and (b) other staff in contact with children housed in bridging hotels are Disclosure and Barring Service checked.

All individuals working directly with the young people accommodated at the hotels have Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks, and all those working or operating on the hotel sites have DBS clearance.