David T. C. Davies – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-02-22.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of asylum seekers who have been found to have fraudulently claimed to be under the age of 18 in each of the last years.
James Brokenshire
We publish statistics on cases where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. The table below shows the number of cases in each of the last 3 years.
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Asylum Claims by Year with a disputed age |
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Year of Claim |
Totals |
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2012 |
337 |
|
2013 |
323 |
|
2014 |
318 |
Data is taken from published statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum
Whilst we do hold information on the results of these assessments and whether they were found to be under the age of 18 the way corresponding data is held means that to obtain the data could only be achieved at disproportionate cost by examination of individual case files.
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