Question follow-through · 50552
Children in Care: Undocumented Migrants
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of looked after children (a) were and (b) were not Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in each year since 2005.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
7 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of looked after children (a) were and (b) were not Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children in each year since 2005.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
Information on the number of looked after children, including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC), is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published at local authority level in our statistical release at: https://explore-educatio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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