PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Asylum: Children (20 July 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people granted temporary asylum as children have been denied permanent asylum upon applying as an adult in each of the last 10 years.

Asked by:
Kirsty Blackman (Scottish National Party)

When a child passes the age of 18 and their Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC) leave expires, they are no longer considered to be a UASC and are therefore required to take steps to return voluntarily or seek further leave to remain. If the individual does not seek to regularise their stay through further applications or leave is not granted they may be removed in accordance with the Immigration Rules and published Home Office policy should they fail to leave voluntarily.

The table below provides the number of individuals refused further leave in each of the last 10 years where they had been previously granted UASC leave.

Year of Further Leave Application	No of FL Refusals
2005	0
2006	6
2007	50
2008	156
2009	483
2010	870
2011	871
2012	631
2013	505
2014	374

Answered by:
James Brokenshire (Conservative)
7 September 2015