‘This is horrific’: Jenrick questioned on missing asylum-seeking children

Green party MP Caroline Lucas was granted an urgent question on Tuesday over reports that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have gone missing from hotels.

Ms Lucas said: “This is horrific. Mr. Speaker, vulnerable children are being dumped by the Home Office. Scores of them are going missing. And I can tell the minister there is nothing specialist about these hotels”.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick responded: “Well, those are very serious allegations. And I’d specifically asked the officials who run this hotel whether they’ve seen evidence of that. And indeed, I asked the senior leadership of Brighton and Hove Council. I’ve not been presented with evidence that that has happened, but I will continue to make enquiries”.