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date	16/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to publish statistics on age-disputed young people who are initially treated as adult and later found to be children for the purposes of immigration and asylum.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	123989
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes data on asylum and resettlement in the ‘<a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release" target="_blank">Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release</a>’. Data on the number of asylum age disputes are published in table Asy_D05 of the <a title="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#age-disputes" href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/asylum-and-resettlement-datasets#age-disputes" target="_blank">asylum and resettlement detailed datasets</a>. Information on how to use the datasets can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data relates to Q3 2022. Published data on age disputes only relate to age disputes of individuals with an asylum claim and do not include any other forms of age disputes.</p><p>Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘<a title="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" href="https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=immigration&amp;content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&amp;organisations%5B%5D=home-office&amp;order=relevance" target="_blank">Research and statistics calendar</a>’.</p><p> </p><p>Official statistics published by the Home Office are kept under review in line with the code of practice for statistics, taking into account a number of factors including user needs, as well as quality and availability of data.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick question first answered 19/01/2023 17:44:31 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1567075

registered interest
date	16/01/2023
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to ensure that children placed in any form of asylum accommodation are protected and safeguarded; and who is responsible for their protection and safeguarding.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	123991
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2023 answer text <p>There are clear safeguarding issues which arise if a child is inadvertently treated as an adult, and equally if an adult is wrongly accepted as a child and placed in accommodation with younger children to whom they could present a risk. It is therefore of upmost importance that, where a young asylum seeker’s age is in doubt, the process of age assessment is resolved quickly and conclusively to ensure the right care is provided for that individual.</p><p>Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are supported by team leaders and support workers who are on site 24 hours a day. Further care is provided in hotels by teams of social workers and nurses.</p><p>All staff, including contractors, receive a number of briefings and guidance on how to safeguard children.</p><p>Local authorities have a statutory duty to protect all children. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is a key local authority duty and requires effective joint working between agencies and professionals.</p> answering member constituency Newark answering member printed Robert Jenrick grouped question UIN 123990 question first answered 19/01/2023 17:47:01 answering member 4320 label Biography information for Robert Jenrick
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley