Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade

I would like to offer the hon. Gentleman some reassurance. I received a letter this morning from the director of children’s services in Liverpool, telling me that Liverpool is one of two centres in the UK to take unaccompanied children coming into this country to seek asylum. I was informed that there was a panoply of provision for those children that was equal to anything that we would provide for our own children. The director of children’s services wrote to ask me for further assistance, but he also took the opportunity to outline the Government’s plans for a network of centres throughout the UK for these children in order to ensure that when they arrive they are adequately taken care of and protected.