Clause 2 - Eligible children
Child Trust Funds Bill
2:30 pm
Ms Ruth Kelly (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; Bolton West, Labour)
Yes. When children have been granted indefinite leave, they are entitled to other benefits according to the same criteria as other families. As soon as they are settled permanently in the United Kingdom, they will be entitled to the child trust fund. If an unaccompanied child had not been granted that status and was refused asylum, the child would be removed only if appropriate reception and care arrangements existed in the country to which he or she was to be removed. However, if the child were granted asylum, he or she would be eligible for the child trust fund as would other children in care.