Asylum: Nigeria

(asked on 8th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many unaccompanied children arrived in the UK from Nigeria in 2015.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 15th March 2016

The questions have been interpreted as referring to unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK.

Figures on asylum applications for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release.

The following table shows applications for asylum from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, excluding dependants, for nationals of Nigeria, Uganda, Albania and Eritrea during 2015.

Asylum applications received from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, excluding dependants, from nationals of Nigeria, Uganda, Albania and Eritrea during 2015

Nationality

Total applications

Nigeria

14

Uganda

0

Albania

456

Eritrea

694

Table Notes

(1) These data are provisional and subject to change.

(2) An Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) is a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum on his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom.

A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics October to December 2015, is available from:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2015

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