Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted and sentenced as adults under s24, s25 and s25A of the Immigration Act 1971 and have subsequently been accepted to be children in each of the last 24 months.

The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions and sentence outcomes for defendants of different ages in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2022, including offences under section 24, 25 and 25A of the Immigration Act 1971 as set out in the Offence Group Classification. The tool includes filtering by specific offences.

However, whether a defendant was subsequently found to be a child is not held centrally in the Court Proceedings Database and cannot be obtained without incurring disproportionate costs.