Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children from refugee camps she has facilitated to be relocated to the UK in each of the last 12 months.

The Home Office does not publish a breakdown of individuals who were resettled from refugee camps. We work closely with UNHCR to identify those who would benefit most from resettlement to the UK, whether they are living in formal refugee camps, informal settlements or host communities. We also do not hold detailed information on the location of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children within European Member States.

In the year to March 2020, 4,968 people received sanctuary in the UK through our resettlement schemes, almost half of whom were children (2,380).

The Home Office is committed to publishing data in an orderly way as part of the regular quarterly Immigration Statistics, in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics. The latest resettlement statistics, which include arrivals under our schemes up to the end of March 2020, can be found at www.gov.uk/government/collections/migration-statistics

Outside of our resettlement schemes, children have also been transferred to the UK under both the Dublin III (‘Dublin’) Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 (‘s67’).

Dublin data are published on an annual basis (each February) in the Immigration Statistics. This includes the number of acceptances and transfers broken down by article and Member State. The latest data, covering up to 2019, can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#dublin-regulation

In 2016, the Government committed to transfer 480 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children displaced in Europe under s67. On 21 May 2020, we published the data for the current number of children who have been transferred under the scheme. These data can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-march-2020/how-many-people-do-we-grant-asylum-or-protection-to “