Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children were transferred under section 69 of the Immigration Act 2016.

We are grateful to the local authorities who continue to support unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, including those who have participated in the National Transfer Scheme (NTS).

The Home Office publish the number of NTS transfers between participating local authorities as part of the quarterly asylum transparency release. The latest publication was on 24 May 2018 and can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/asylum-transparency-data-may-2018.

Transfer volumes dating back to the inception of the NTS can be found in earlier releases on the same website.