Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on what date she took the decision to reopen the hotel in Hove to house unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; how many people previously housed at that hotel as children who went missing from that hotel remain missing; of those who remain missing, how many are still under the age of 18; whether her Department's risk assessment of the safeguarding risks to unaccompanied children of being housed in hotels has considered information obtained from the cases of children who have previously gone missing from such hotels and who have been (a) found and (b) not found; and if she will make a statement.

This matter is sub judice so the Home Office cannot comment at this time. Once the matter is resolved they may re-table the question to obtain a more substantive response.