Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children are waiting assessment or transfer from Italy to the UK under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016.

At present we do not publish data on cases covered by the Dublin Regulation. Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, regularly publishes Member State figures, which you can find at http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Dublin_statistics_on_countries_responsible_for_asylum_application

We are working closely with the Italian authorities to identify children who qualify to be transferred to the UK under the Dublin Regulation or section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. We have a long-standing secondee working in Italy and have established a dedicated team in the Home Office Dublin Unit to lead on family reunion cases for unaccompanied children. The secondee’s role includes facilitating the application of section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016.