Written Question·Home Office·UIN 61260

Asylum: Children

Tabled: 19 June 2025
Answered: 26 June 2025

Question

Jess Asato

LabourLowestoft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent steps her Department has taken to publish (a) the number of people claiming to be children who have been assessed as adults on first arrival and (b) the number later found to be children f

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Available data on the number of raised and resolved age disputes is published in table Asy_D05 of the asylum detailed tables. Updated data will be included ...

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