Written questions

Asylum: Children

2026-06-07 · Home Office · 7561 · Official question

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of recent research by the Jesuit Refugee Service UK and the Humans for Rights Network on the misidentification of children by the one in, one out scheme.

Answer

Unaccompanied children are not subject to the agreement between the United Kingdom and France on the prevention of dangerous journeys, also known as the one-in, one-out policy.Upon arrival, where an individual claims to be a child without any credible and...