Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of the regulatory framework applying to hotels providing accommodation to unaccompanied children seeking asylum under the National Transfer Scheme; and if she will make a statement.

The Home Office are accommodating unaccompanied asylum seeking children on an emergency and temporary basis until they are transferred under the National Transfer Scheme to a responsible local authority. The Department for Education and the Home Office are clear that the best place for these children is in a local authority care placement.