Ministers should publish fresh data on councils’ ability to take unaccompanied asylum-seeking children before ditching the Dubs Amendment, MPs have warned.
The Home Affairs Committee report follows the Government’s surprise decision to abolish an amendment to the Immigration Act – named after Lord Dubs, a former child migrant - which required the UK to take-in a specified number of unaccompanied child migrants who had already travelled to Europe from areas such as war-torn Syria.
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