Refugees: Children

(asked on 10th January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 10 January (HL4287), how many of the 750 children brought to the UK have been transferred under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 without reference to the Dublin Regulation.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
This question was answered on 17th January 2017

Approximately 200 of the children brought over from France as part of the Calais camp clearance were transferred as a result of them meeting the criteria for section 67 of the Immigration Act.

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