Written Question·Home Office·UIN 196281

Asylum: Children

Tabled: 1 September 2023
Answered: 6 September 2023
Named Day

Question

Stephen Kinnock

LabourAberafan 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 Jenrick
The 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.