Mary Creagh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2014-03-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children there were in the UK in each of the last 10 years.

James Brokenshire

Figures for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASCs) placed in Local Authority care are not available from published statistics.

In 2012 and 2013 there were 1,125 and 1,174 applications received from UASCs, excluding dependants.

Figures on a comparable basis are not available for previous years.

The Home Office publishes statistics on asylum applications from UASCs in tables as_08 and as_08_q (Asylum data tables Volume 2) of the release Immigration Statistics available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2013

This release is available from the Library of the House.

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