Question follow-through · 18967

Undocumented Migrants: Children

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

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 10 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 2 Jan 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
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
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jan 2025
Answer published
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...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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