Lord Dubs – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Dubs on 2016-09-05.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many child refugees have been transferred to the UK because they had an existing family connection in the UK from (1) France, (2) Greece, and (3) Italy, in (a) 2015, and (b) 2016 to date.

Baroness Williams of Trafford

Our records currently indicate that in 2016 the Government has transferred just under 100 unaccompanied refugee children to the UK under the Dublin Regulation, the majority of which are from France. This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics.

In 2015, around 20 unaccompanied refugee children in Europe were accepted for transfer to the UK.