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<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>
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