Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what measures they intend to put in place better to track displaced children across Europe.

Unless they are on UK territory, migrant children remain the responsibility and under the jurisdiction of the European Member State in which they are present.
The Government notes the European Commission’s proposal from 2016 on a new Eurodac Regulation. Eurodac is the EU fingerprint database of asylum seekers and certain illegal migrants. This is entirely subject to negotiations, but it is interesting to see the Commission’s proposal to reduce the age of stored fingerprints for children from 14 years, to six years of age. As noted in the Government’s Explanatory Memorandum in 2016 on this proposal, we welcome this proposed change as it may help improve monitoring migrant children on the move.