Undocumented Migrants: Children
Commons · Question 18967 · Tabled 10 Dec 2024 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 2 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Chris Philp
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many migrants entering the country illegally claimed to be children since 5 July 2024; how many and what proportion of those migrants were subsequently assessed to be (a) under and (b) over 18; an
Answer
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle, 2 Jan 2025
The Home Office publishes quarterly statistics on detected irregular arrivals to the UK in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Quarterly data on detected irregular arrivals by age group is published in table Irr_D01 of the ‘Irregular mi...