PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Migrants: Children (7 July 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many litigation cases around age assessments of unaccompanied migrant children there were in (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13; and what the cost of such cases was to (i) local authorities and (ii) her Department.

Asked by:
Lisa Nandy (Labour)

A complete set of data for all litigation cases concerning age assessments of unaccompanied migrant children is not held centrally and the information requested can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Dame Karen Bradley (Conservative)
21 July 2014