Europe: Refugees

(asked on 12th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate her Department has made of the number of child refugees who are unaccompanied in each European country.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 18th October 2017

According to Eurostat data, 63,300 unaccompanied children claimed asylum in the EU in 2016:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/8016696/3-11052017-AP-EN.pdf/30ca2206-0db9-4076-a681-e069a4bc5290.

This includes a breakdown of asylum applications by EU Member State.

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