Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 30 January 2023 to Question 131189 on Asylum: Children, whether she plans to hold discussions 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.

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