Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many child refugees came to the UK to join family members in (1) 2015, (2) 2016, (3) 2017, and (4) 2018.

The Home Office publishes a range of data on asylum seekers and refugees in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release

This data includes a range of topics relevant to the question above:

• The number of asylum applications received in the UK and initial decision on such applications, broken down by age and whether or not the application was lodged by an unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC), are published in tables Asy_D01 and Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets

The number of people resettled in the UK, broken down by age are published in table Asy_D02 of the asylum and resettlement detailed datasets. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets

The number of family reunion visas granted to family members of refugees in the UK, broken down by age are published in table Fam_D01 of the family reunion datasets.

The number of asylum seekers transferred into and out of the UK under the Dublin Regulation, broken down by Dublin article are published in table Dub_D01 of the Dublin regulation datasets.

On overview of the Dublin articles, and the criteria for meeting each article can be found in the User Guide. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/user-guide-to-home-office-immigration-statistics--9

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to the year ending September 2019 and covers the period requested for (2015 to 2018).

Additionally, the Home Office publishes a high-level overview of the data in the ‘summary tables’.

The ‘contents’ sheet contains an overview of all available data on asylum and resettlement.

Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.