Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many refugee children have been supported to enter the UK in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017.

From within Europe, we transferred over 900 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to the UK in 2016 under the Dublin Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. In 2015, there were around 20 transfers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children to the UK from Europe under the Dublin Regulation.

From outside of Europe, 2,059 children were resettled to the UK under the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme in year ending September 2016.

The UK also supports refugee children to enter the UK via our Gateway and Mandate resettlement schemes and our refugee family reunion policy, however the published statistics do not break down these figures by those aged over and under 18.