Lord Laming
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Lord Laming (CB)
My Lords, can the noble Lord bring us up to date on the position of unaccompanied migrant children who are in hotels, and is he satisfied that their safety and safeguarding are being properly addressed?
Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab)
I am grateful to the noble Lord. We took an early decision, as he knows, to work with the local authority, Kent, to ensure that safeguarding was in place, and that is in place now. There are still a number of unaccounted migrant children, who precede this Government’s responsibilities, and we are making efforts to track them down as best we can. I assure him that we are taking every step we can to make sure that that situation does not occur again.