Louise Haigh – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2016-03-08.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were removed to Vietnam in each year between 2007 and 2015.

James Brokenshire

Home Office records indicate that the number of former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children removed to Vietnam between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2015, is as shown in the following table:

Note: This is provisional management information that is subject to change. It has not been assured to the standard of Official Statistics. Number of removals to Vietnam have been rounded to the nearest ten.

Removal of former unaccompanied asylum seeking children will only take place after their asylum claim has been finally determined, including any appeal hearing, and it has been established that there is no risk of persecution, or of a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, upon return to their Home Country. After a former unaccompanied asylum seeking child is over eighteen years of age, and found not to be at risk upon return to their home country, their removal will be managed in line with our usual arrangements for the safe and secure return of failed asylum seekers who do not leave the UK voluntarily.