Refugees: Children
(asked on 11th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied child refugees have been received in the UK in each of the last five years.
Refugee status is conferred following a grant of asylum. An asylum seeker only becomes a refugee once asylum has been granted. Not all asylum seekers are deemed to be refugees and not all refugees claim asylum. Figures on asylum applications for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release. The attached table shows total applications of asylum for UASC from 2010 to quarter 3 2015.
| Asylum applications received from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children1, excluding dependants, 2010 to Q3 2015 | ||||||||||
| Year | Total applications | |||||||||
| 2010 | 1,515 | |||||||||
| 2011 | 1,248 | |||||||||
| 2012 | 1,125 | |||||||||
| 2013 | 1,265 | |||||||||
| 2014 | 1,945 | |||||||||
| 2015 Q1 - Q3 | 1,963 | |||||||||
| Table Notes | ||||||||||
| (1) An Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) is a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum on his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom. | ||||||||||
A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics July to September 2015, is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.