To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of irregular migrants who claim to be under 18 have undergone age assessments since 2018; and how many and what proportion of those assessed were found to be 18 or over.
Answered on
1 November 2024
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on age disputes raised and resolved is published in table Asy_D05 of the ‘Asylum applications, initial decisions and resettlement detailed datasets’.
The latest data relates to year ending June 2024. Note that the age disputes in Asy_D05 relate to people who have claimed asylum and will include people who did not arrive in the UK irregularly.
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