Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children have had their claims certified in (a) 2015, (b) 2016 and (c) 2017 to date.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of certified refusals for applications made by Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in tables as_09 and as_09_q of immigration statistics April to June 2017: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638599/asylum3-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods