Asylum: Children
(asked on 17th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many children under 16 in asylum-seeking families receive financial support from the Government.
This question was answered on 24th July 2015
On 31 March 2015, there were 5,477 children under the age of 16 in asylum-seeking families (i.e. not listed as Appeal Rights Exhausted) in receipt of Section 95 Asylum Support (Accommodation and Subsistence or Subsistence only).