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874643

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date	29/03/2018
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 an assessment of the effect on the mental health of 18-year old asylum seekers of their transfer from social care to the National Asylum Support System.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	134945
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>There are no plans to make such an assessment.</p><p>Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in England are supported by local authorities under the Children Act 1989 and usually remain supported under the same legislation as “care leavers” after they turn 18 years of age.</p><p>The only circumstances in which they would transfer to the asylum support system administered by the Home Office is if they were supported by the local authority for less than 13 weeks before their 18<sup>th</sup> birthday and their asylum claim or appeal was still outstanding.</p><p>Similar arrangements are in place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/04/2018 10:46:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

874860

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Asylum
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent estimate she has made of the number of rejected asylum seekers in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	135161
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>Information on the UK’s resident population is a matter for the Office for National Statistics. The Home Office does not publish estimates on the number of rejected asylum seekers currently in the UK.</p><p>The Home Office does publish quarterly breakdowns of the number of asylum applications that were rejected at initial decision, in table as_01_q (asylum, volume 1) of the quarterly <em>Immigration Statistics</em> release. However, data are based on initial decision and some will be overturned following appeal.</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-october-to-december-2017-data-tables</a></p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/04/2018 11:05:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

874863

registered interest
date	29/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Free Movement of People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to allow non-musicians working in the music industry an exemption from restrictions on free movement after the UK leaves the EU.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	135164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>The precise way in which the Government will control migration to the UK following exit from the EU is yet to be determined.</p><p>In July 2017, the Government commissioned the independent Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to advise on the economic and social impacts of the UK’s exit from the European Union and also on how the UK’s immigration system should be aligned with a modern industrial strategy. The MAC’s call for evidence sought information on EU migrants’ skills, amongst other things, and this will be considered in their final report due in September 2018.</p><p>We will build a comprehensive picture of the needs and interests of all parts of the UK, taking account of the evidence from the MAC, and look to develop a system which works for all.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/04/2018 11:05:25 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel

873526

registered interest
date	28/03/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Migrants: Children and Young People
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what step her Department is taking support (a) child and (b) young adult migrants on arrival in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Leeds North West
tabling member printed	Alex Sobel
uin	134641
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/04/2018 answer text <p>If the migrant is an unaccompanied child they are supported by the local authority under the Children Act 1989 or equivalent legislation in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland</p><p> </p><p>If the migrant is an asylum seeker and over the age of 18, or the dependant of an adult asylum seeker, they are supported by the Home Office if they would otherwise be destitute. The support usually consists of accommodation and a weekly cash allowance to cover their or their family’s essential living needs.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 16/04/2018 09:32:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4658 label Biography information for Alex Sobel