Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of unaccompanied minors who have (a) applied for and (b) been granted asylum in the UK in each of the last 12 months; and if she will make a statement.

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

The attached table shows asylum applications, decisions and grants from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, excluding dependants, from Quarter 3 2015 to Quarter 2 2016.

A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April to June 2016, is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016