Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 21647

Schools: Asylum

Tabled: 3 January 2025
Answered: 13 January 2025

Question

Helen Hayes

LabourDulwich and West Norwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of Unaccompanied Children Seeking Asylum who were not in school in each of the last five years, broken down by gender.

Answer

Janet Daby
Information on the number of unaccompanied children seeking asylum who were not in school is not collected or held by the department. Data collected by the department on children not in school does not indicate whether children are asylum seekers.The depa...

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