Immigrants: Children

(asked on 7th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many litigation cases around age assessments of unaccompanied migrant children there were in (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13; and what the cost of such cases was to (i) local authorities and (ii) her Department.


Answered by
Karen Bradley Portrait
Karen Bradley
This question was answered on 21st July 2014

A complete set of data for all litigation cases concerning age assessments of unaccompanied migrant children is not held centrally and the information requested can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

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