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620987

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
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, how many (a) male and (b) female child refugees and asylum seekers of each age have arrived in the UK since 1 September 2016.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	50106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes the Immigration Statistics release each quarter, and the latest release covering the quarter ending June 2016 is available here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016</a></p><p>The annual number of asylum claims received from main claimants and dependants, by age and sex is published in table as_04, in volume 2 of the asylum data tables:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546759/asylum2-q2-2016-tabs.ods</p><p>The quarterly number of asylum claims received from unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, excluding dependants, sex and age at time of application, is published in table as_08_q, in volume 3 of the asylum data tables:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546760/asylum3-q2-2016-tabs.ods</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 03/11/2016 17:45:18 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

621002

registered interest
date	25/10/2016
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, how many child asylum applicants have been refused accommodation by a local authority in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	50233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2016 answer text <p>No unaccompanied asylum seeking children have been refused accommodation by local authorities.</p><p>Under section 20 of the Children Act 1989 local authorities have a duty to provide accommodation to any child in need who requires it.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 31/10/2016 16:52:41 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

620005

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
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, whether it is the Government's policy to ensure that unaccompanied children arriving in the UK to seek asylum are given dental check-ups.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	49880
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>Unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK are transferred to the care of a local authority. The local authority will arrange for the child’s health to be assessed and for a health plan to be drawn up. This will include dental care. Central records are not kept of the number of dental check-ups given to such children.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 49879 question first answered 21/12/2016 11:02:12 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

620008

registered interest
date	24/10/2016
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, how many unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK have been given a dental check-up in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	49879
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2016 answer text <p>Unaccompanied asylum seeking children arriving in the UK are transferred to the care of a local authority. The local authority will arrange for the child’s health to be assessed and for a health plan to be drawn up. This will include dental care. Central records are not kept of the number of dental check-ups given to such children.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 49880 question first answered 21/12/2016 11:02:12 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

607544

registered interest
date	21/10/2016
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, how many (a) male and (b) female unaccompanied children arrived in the UK seeking asylum in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	49744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office publishes the Immigration Statistics release each quarter.</p><p>The requested information is available in table as_08, in volume 3 of the asylum data tables:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546760/asylum3-q2-2016-tabs.ods</p><p>A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics April to June 2016, is available from:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june2016/asylum</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 03/11/2016 17:48:53 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453302

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
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, how many unaccompanied asylum seekers claiming to be under the age of 18 arrived in the UK for each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>Figures on asylum applications for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) are published quarterly by the Home Office in the Immigration Statistics release. The attached table gives total applications for asylum from UASC aged under 18, for 2012 to 2014.</p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>Asylum applications received from Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children under 18, excluding dependants, 2012 to 2014</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total applications</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>1,028</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>1,197</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>1,858</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Table Notes</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" rowspan="2"><p>(1) An Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Child (UASC) is a person under 18, or who, in the absence of documentary evidence establishing age, appears to be under that age, is applying for asylum on his or her own right and has no relative or guardian in the United Kingdom.</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A copy of the latest release, Immigration Statistics July to September 2015, is available from https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/series/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/02/2016 15:59:36 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

453320

registered interest
date	19/02/2016
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, how many asylum seekers who claim to be under the age of 18 have undergone independent testing to determine their age in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Monmouth
tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
uin	27500
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2016 answer text <p>We publish statistics on cases where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. The table below shows the number of cases in each of the last 3 years.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p>Asylum Claims by Year with a disputed age</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year of Claim</p></td><td><p>Totals</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>337</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>323</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>318</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Data is taken from published statistics</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum</p> answering member constituency Old Bexley and Sidcup answering member printed James Brokenshire question first answered 25/02/2016 16:06:26 answering member 1530 label Biography information for James Brokenshire
tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies