Children: Deportation
(asked on 23rd October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children were removed to (a) Afghanistan, (b) Syria, (c) Libya, (d) Iraq, (e) Iran and (f) Albania in each year between 2007 and 2015; and if she will make a statement.
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The number of former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children removed between 2007 and 31 December 2015, is shown in the following table:
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Removed in Year | Afghanistan | Albania | Iran | Iraq | Libya | Syria | Total |
2007 | 159 | 378 | 7 | 56 | 1 | - | 601 |
2008 | 159 | 203 | 21 | 126 | - | - | 509 |
2009 | 232 | 95 | 12 | 153 | - | - | 492 |
2010 | 321 | 57 | 9 | 69 | - | - | 456 |
2011 | 433 | 36 | 4 | 57 | - | 1 | 531 |
2012 | 234 | 35 | 4 | 64 | 1 | - | 338 |
2013 | 269 | 47 | 3 | 72 | 1 | - | 392 |
2014 | 154 | 45 | 2 | 38 | 1 | - | 240 |
2015 | 57 | 106 | 6 | 22 | - | - | 191 |
Total | 2018 | 1002 | 68 | 657 | 4 | 1 | 3,750 |
Note: This is live management information and subject to change.
Removal of former unaccompanied asylum seeking children will only take place after their asylum claim has been finally determined, including any appeal hearing, and it has been established that there is no risk of persecution, or of a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, upon return to their Home Country. After a former unaccompanied asylum seeking child is over eighteen years of age, and found not to be at risk upon return to their home country, their removal will be managed in line with our usual arrangements for the safe and secure return of failed asylum seekers who do not leave the UK voluntarily.