The immigration minister has dodged questions on the number of unaccompanied minor immigrants currently missing in the UK.
Robert Jenrick was asked by several MPs on the current figures following reports that 400 children who arrived in Britain unaccompanied had disappeared.
In January Jenrick told MPs that of the 4,600 unaccompanied minors who arrived in the UK without an adult since July 2021, 440 had gone missing while housed in hotels.
More than half returned, but over 180—including over a dozen under the age of 16—had not been found.
Of those who have vanished, 88 percent are Albanian nationals, with the remaining 12 percent from Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Turkey. Just one is female….
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