Speeches

Lord Storey – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Storey on 2014-03-26.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many former unaccompanied children who have exhausted their appeal rights have been served with removal directions in each of the last five years, and to date in 2014.

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

For the purpose of answering this question, ‘unaccompanied children’ has been interpreted as unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

The following table gives data on the number of removal directions (RD) set for formerunaccompanied asylum seeking children who have exhausted their appeal rights from 2009 to 2013.

Year Removal Direction was set

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Total

Individuals with Removal Direction set

29

82

188

146

158

603