Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implication for her policies of the finding of the Thematic Report on migrant and refugee children, published by the Council of Europe on 10 March 2017 that Europe's treatment of child refugees increases the risk of radicalisation; and if she will make a statement.

The Government notes the Council of Europe’s report on migrant and refugee children and is committed to implementing policies which do not inadvertently create incentives for children to make dangerous journeys into and across Europe and place their lives in the hands of people traffickers and criminal gangs. That is why we have focused our efforts on providing support in and around regions of conflict, and on providing safe and legal routes for children to come to the UK via our resettlement schemes. The Government is also working with law enforcement agencies and governments across Europe to clamp down on those seeking to exploit or radicalise human beings. The welfare of all children in the UK is a priority and unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children are entitled to the same care and support as any other looked after child.