Written Question·Home Office·UIN 101806

Migrants: Children in Care

Tabled: 2 January 2026
Answered: 12 January 2026

Question

Anneliese Dodds

Labour (Co-op)Oxford East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of not resolving the immigration status of children in care before they turn 18.

Answer

Mike Tapp
The Home Secretary set out in the Immigration White Paper published on 12 May that the Home Office will ensure children who have been in the UK for some time, turn 18 and discover they do not have status, are fully supported and able to regularise their s...

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