Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) male and (b) female unaccompanied children arrived in the UK seeking asylum in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

The Home Office publishes the Immigration Statistics release each quarter.

The requested information is available in table as_08, in volume 3 of the asylum data tables:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546760/asylum3-q2-2016-tabs.ods

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-june2016/asylum