Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government has made an estimate of the number of refugee children awaiting entry to the UK who have gone missing in refugee camps.

Responsibility for migrant children in other countries and the management of refugee camps sits with the respective Governments and organisations working with those Governments. Therefore we are unable to make an estimate.

We are working closely with France, Italy and Greece on the transfer of unaccompanied refugee children under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 and we continue to resettle those in need of international protection through our four resettlement schemes. We work closely with organisations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to ensure the safe transfer of those children to the UK.