Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied minors seeking asylum were detained by the UK in 2018.

Unaccompanied minors are not detained for asylum purposes in the UK.

Information on people entering detention by age, sex and place of initial detention (as at year ending September 2018) can be found in table dt_01_q of the detention tables, which can be found in the latest release of ‘Immigration Statistics’, available from the Home Office website at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-september-2018/list-of-tables#detention