Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied migrant children appeared in appeal proceedings in 2014 against orders made.
Answered by Lord Faulks
There were 303 unaccompanied migrant children recorded as appellants in asylum cases in the Immigration and Asylum First Tier Tribunal in 2014. The database does not record whether the appellant actually attended a tribunal hearing, which may be held on case files but could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. HMCTS do not record whether witnesses are unaccompanied migrant children. Other courts and tribunals do not record whether a party or a witness in a case is an unaccompanied child migrant.
Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied migrant children appeared in courts and tribunals as either parties or witnesses in 2014.
Answered by Lord Faulks
There were 303 unaccompanied migrant children recorded as appellants in asylum cases in the Immigration and Asylum First Tier Tribunal in 2014. The database does not record whether the appellant actually attended a tribunal hearing, which may be held on case files but could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. HMCTS do not record whether witnesses are unaccompanied migrant children. Other courts and tribunals do not record whether a party or a witness in a case is an unaccompanied child migrant.
Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied migrant children appeared in the family courts in relation to care proceedings in 2014.
Answered by Lord Faulks
Information on the number of unaccompanied migrant children who appeared in the family courts in relation to care proceedings is not collected centrally.