Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reasons her Department will not establish an independent inquiry into the disappearance of children from accommodation managed by her Department.

All cases of missing children remain open, with police forces completing investigations and following any new evidence.

When any young person goes missing the 'missing persons protocol' is followed and led by our directly engaged social workers. A multi-agency, missing persons protocol is mobilised involving the police and the local authority, who have a shared statutory responsibility to safeguard all children, including missing migrant children, in order to establish their whereabouts and to ensure that they are safe.

When any looked after child who goes missing from a care setting, including the UASC hotels, the MARS (Missing After Reasonable Steps) protocol is followed.