Asylum: Children
(asked on 18th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children aged (1) 16–17, and (2) under 16, who are likely to arrive in the UK in the next 12 months.
This question was answered on 26th September 2023
The data requested cannot be provided as it depends on live operational databases that have not been quality assured. The Home Office uses this data alongside historical trends, expert opinion and other data sources to plan for a range of possible future asylum application demand, reflecting the unpredictability of world events and other drivers of immigration a range of projections are produced.