Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking Children

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 December 2016.

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Photo of Martyn Day Martyn Day Scottish National Party, Linlithgow and East Falkirk 12:00, 5 December 2016

Unlike almost every other EU country, the UK does not allow unaccompanied child refugees to sponsor their parents to join them—a situation that the Home Affairs Committee has described as “perverse”. Does the Home Secretary agree that it is in the best interests of the refugee children, as well as in the interests of our society, to allow them to be with their parents?