Education and Skills written question – answered at on 30 January 2007.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills whether his Department has made an assessment of the effects of the presence of points of entry in a local authority on the numbers of unaccompanied asylum seeker children that authority has the responsibility to care for.
I am aware from Home Office figures that unaccompanied asylum seeking children make applications both at ports of entry and, in the majority of cases, subsequently 'in-country' at Immigration and Nationality Department offices. Of the approximately 3,000 applications made in 2005, approximately 15 per cent. are made at points of entry and 85 per cent. are made 'in-country'. The effect of this has been that the majority of such children are located in London and the South East of England.
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