Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to continue funding the Family Restoration Fund for former child migrants following the end of the current scheme.

On current plans, the Family Restoration Fund for former British child migrants will continue until April 2020. In the nine years that it has been in place, the Fund has helped nearly 700 former British child migrants to make over 1,200 trips to be reunited with their loved ones. Future funding will be considered as part of the forthcoming spending review.

The Child Migrants Trust, who manage the Family Restoration Fund on behalf of the Government, provide monthly data to the Department. Data provided up to the end of March 2019 does not suggest that patterns of demand have changed significantly as compared to the previous year.