Written Question·Home Office·UIN 18967

Undocumented Migrants: Children

Tabled: 10 December 2024

Answered: 2 January 2025

Named Day

Question

Chris Philp

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants entering the country illegally claimed to be children since 5 July 2024; how many and what proportion of those migrants were subsequently assessed to be (a) under and (b) over 18; an

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Quarterly data on detected irregular arrivals by age group is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular mi...

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