Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) unaccompanied and (b) accompanied asylum seeking children were detained in 2022.

The Home Office do not hold the requested figures; figures on the overall numbers of children detained are published regularly.

Figures can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1118246/detention-summary-sep-2022-tables.ods.