Asylum: Children
(asked on 4th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to table AS 08 Q of the Quarterly Immigration Statistics, January to March 2017, published on 25 May 2017, how many applications for asylum made during Quarter 1 of 2017 were made by unaccompanied children who arrived in the UK (a) under section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016, (b) through the Dublin III Regulation and (c) by their own initiative.
On 30 November, the Government published data on the numbers of children transferred to the UK from the Calais camp clearance under both the Dublin III Regulation and section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016. The data can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transfers-of-children-to-the-uk-from-the-calais-operation-november-2017The Government has committed to publishing regular updates on the number of those transferred under the Dublin III Regulation. This data will be published in the coming months. Eurostat the EU’s statistics agency regularly publishes Member State figures, which can be found at:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_quarterly_report.
The Home Office publishes a range of data on asylum claims from unaccompanied children which can be found at the following link. This data relates to all unaccompanied children who have claimed asylum in the UK and does not provide a breakdown depending on the child’s method of entry.