Written Question·Home Office·UIN 196281
Asylum: Children
Tabled: 1 September 2023
Answered: 6 September 2023
Named DayQuestion
Stephen Kinnock
Labour — Aberafan Maesteg
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seeker children have been (a) sent to adult prisons and (b) sent to adult prisons where paedophiles are serving sentences in each of the last five years.
Answer
Robert JenrickThe Home Office does not collect data on the number of age dispute cases that have arisen in adult prisons. Our published data on age assessment can be accessed here.