Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the anticipated timeline for the publication of an impact assessment of the draft Immigration and Asylum Bill; and to what extent that assessment will focus on the issues facing children.

An Impact Assessment and an Equality Impact Assessment for the Immigration and Asylum Bill were published on GOV.UK on 30 June. The Equality Impact Assessment sets out an assessment of how the policies in the Bill may impact children in relation to the protected characteristic of age.

Careful consideration will continue to be given as to how children will be impacted by the measures within the Immigration and Asylum Bill, in line with Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship, and Immigration Act 2009.