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Asylum: Children

Question for Home Office

UIN HL4242, tabled on 19 December 2016

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied children under 16 years of age have been granted asylum in the UK in the past (1) six months, and (2) 12 months.

Answered on

10 January 2017

The Home Office publishes the number of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children granted asylum in each quarter, by age at initial decision, in table as_09q in volume 3 of the Immigration Statistics asylum data tables. These have been published online on the government website and attached to this answer.

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