Mary Creagh – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mary Creagh on 2014-04-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 April 2014, Official Report, columns 352-3W, on asylum: children, if she will publish a breakdown by constituency of the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in each of the last 10 years.

James Brokenshire

Figures for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children by parliamentary constituency
are not collected by the Home Office.

The Home Office publishes aggregate statistics on asylum applications from
unaccompanied asylum seeking children in tables as_08 and as_08_q (Asylum data
tables Volume 2) of Immigration Statistics. Figures based on revised counting
rules appear in the latest release Immigration Statistics October to December
2013 which is available from
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-october-to-dec
ember-2013.