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621003

	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: Age
	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 applicants have been given an estimated date of birth by her Department which differs from the date claimed by those applicants in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	50231
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>An estimated date of birth for an asylum seeker will be provided by the Home Office as part of the age assessment process where no clear and credible documentation as to age is available. If the asylum seeker continues to claim that their date of birth is different, age is recorded as “disputed”. Statistics on the number of age disputed cases are available for each of the last three years at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016/asylum#age-disputes</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 03/11/2016 17:46:28 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

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

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

607549

	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: Age
	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 received any representations from King's College Dental School, between 2012 and 2014, on the use of dental tests to establish the age of people claiming asylum.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	49763
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office received representations from a number of bodies be-tween 2012 and 2014 about the possible use of dental tests to establish the age of people claiming asylum. The view of many of those making representations was that the use of dental tests for this purpose would be unreliable, inappropriate and unethical.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 03/11/2016 17:47:23 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies

620999

	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: Age
	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 applicants have been issued with the IS.97M form in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Monmouth
	tabling member printed	David T. C. Davies
	uin	50230
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/11/2016 answer text <p>The IS97M is issued at screening stage when we dispute a subject’s claim to be a minor. Statistics on the number of age disputed cases are available for each of the last three years at:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016/asylum#age-disputes</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 03/11/2016 17:45:37 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	1545 label Biography information for David T C Davies