Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many 17 year old irregular migrants there are in schools, broken down by local authority.

The Home Office publishes data on irregular arrivals in the ‘Irregular migration to the UK release’. Data on irregular arrivals broken down by age group are published in table Irr_D01 of the 'Irregular migration detailed datasets'.

The Home Office does not publish data on individual ages of irregular arrivals to the UK, or a breakdown of irregular migrants by local authority, or whether they attend a school.

Data on asylum seekers in receipt of support by local authority is published in table Asy_D11 of the 'Asylum seekers in receipt of support by local authority detailed datasets' as part of the 'Immigration system statistics quarterly release'. Please note that not all asylum seekers arrived via irregular means and that not all irregular migrants are asylum seekers in receipt of support.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbooks. The latest data refers to arrivals up to and people supported as on 30 June 2024.