Refugees: Children
(asked on 14th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many child refugees the Government granted asylum to in each of the last 24 months; and how many were from the Calais refugee camp.
Figures on initial decisions for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release, in table as_09q. The belowtable shows the total grants of asylum or some other form of protection to UASC in each quarter of the last two years.
Table: Grants of asylum or some other form of protection to Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children1, at initial decision2 | |||||||||||||||
Quarter | Total Grants3 | ||||||||||||||
2013 Q4 | 140 | ||||||||||||||
2014 Q1 | 122 | ||||||||||||||
2014 Q2 | 123 | ||||||||||||||
2014 Q3 | 263 | ||||||||||||||
2014 Q4 | 398 | ||||||||||||||
2015 Q1 | 328 | ||||||||||||||
2015 Q2 | 331 | ||||||||||||||
2015 Q3 | 281 | ||||||||||||||
Table Notes | |||||||||||||||
(1) Figures exclude dependants | |||||||||||||||
(2) Initial decisions do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period, and exclude the outcome of appeals or other subsequent decisions | |||||||||||||||
(3) Total grants include grants of Asylum, Humanitarian Protection (HP), Discretionary Leave (DL), grants under family and private life rules, Leave Outside the Rules (LOTR) and UASC leave | |||||||||||||||
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics July – September 2015 is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release and the Library of the House. The Home Office does not hold information on the route of asylum applicants into the UK
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