Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the number of asylum applications made in the UK by people aged under 18 that have been approved in each year since 2010.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications from unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) and initial decisions for such applications, in the quarterly Immigration Statistics publication. The latest figures, up until 2017, are available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017

Table as_08 (asylum tables, vol. 3) contains the number of applications from UASC, based on date of application.

Table as_09 (asylum tables, vol. 3) contains the number of grants at initial decisions for UASC, based on date of initial decision.

Table as_02_q_c (asylum tables, vol. 2) contains the number of grants of asylum or alternative forms of protection at initial decision for under 18’s. This includes those granted as a main applicant, dependants to another application or as a UASC.