Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many under-18 year old asylum seekers have been admitted into the UK in each of the last 12 months.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of initial decisions for asylum applications from unaccompanied asylum seeking children (under-18 year old applicants) each quarter by nationality in table as_09_q of the Immigration Statistics release.

The latest figures are available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/638599/asylum3-apr-jun-2017-tables.ods or can be found in the table below:

Total initial decisions on asylum applications from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children

Please note the table exlcudes cases where the applicant was found to be over 18 and that we are due to publish our Q3 data on 30-Nov 2017.