Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-02-29.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 5 January 2016 to Questions 20212, 20253, 20254 and 20256, how many age disputes were (a) raised, (b) resolved when the person was under 18 when first raised and (c) resolved when the person was over 18 when first raised in each local authority area in each year since 2006.

James Brokenshire

The Home Office publishes quarterly data on the number of Age disputes raised and resolved for asylum applicants, by country of nationality.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/501990/asylum3-q4-2015-tabs.ods

Historic data regarding the locations of age disputed asylum applicants cannot be provided at local authority level as to do so would incur disproportionate costs.