Asylum: Children

(asked on 11th May 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what was the percentage of total asylum claims for unaccompanied children seeking asylum for each of the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.


This question was answered on 24th May 2023

The Home Office publishes data on the proportion of total asylum applications lodged in the UK that were made by UASCs in each year in the Immigration system statistics quarterly release on gov.uk. These statistics are published in the Asy_01a table of the asylum summary tables which is attached.

Further information on these statistics can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook tab. The latest data relates to the end of December 2022.

Data for January to March 2023, is due to be published 25th May 2023.

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