Asylum: Children

(asked on 19th February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who claim to be under the age of 18 have undergone independent testing to determine their age in each of the last three years.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 25th February 2016

We publish statistics on cases where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. The table below shows the number of cases in each of the last 3 years.

Asylum Claims by Year with a disputed age

Year of Claim

Totals

2012

337

2013

323

2014

318

Data is taken from published statistics

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum

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