§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many asylum seekers aged under 18 are in the care of social services, broken down by local authority. [144974]
§ Margaret HodgeInformation is not collected centrally in relation to all types of asylum seekers aged under 18. However information is available in relation to unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC).
The information in respect of UASC is shown for 2002, the most recent year for which figures are available.
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Unaccompanied asylum seeking children looked after at 31 March 2002 aged under 18 by local authority Local authority Number England 2,200 Barking and Dagenham 110 Barnet 25 Barnsley 0 Bath and North East Somerset — Bedfordshire — Bexley 10 Birmingham 10 Blackburn and Darwen 0 Blackpool 0 Bolton 0 Bournemouth 0 Bracknell Forest — Bradford 0 Brent 60 Brighton and Hove — Bristol — Bromley 5 Buckinghamshire — Bury — Calderdale 0 Cambridgeshire 10 278W
Camden 55 Cheshire 0 City of London — Cornwall 0 Coventry 0 Croydon 235 Cumbria 0 Darlington 0 Derby — Derbyshire — Devon 0 Doncaster 0 Dorset — Dudley — Durham 0 Ealing 10 East Riding of Yorkshire — East Sussex — Enfield 25 Essex 5 Gateshead 0 Gloucestershire — Greenwich 35 Hackney — Halton — Hammersmith and Fulham 90 Hampshire — Haringey 95 Harrow 15 Hartlepool 0 Havering 10 Herefordshire 0 Hertfordshire — Hillingdon 155 Hounslow 15 Isle of Wight — Isles of Scilly 0 Islington 80 Kensington and Chelsea 75 Kent 195 Kingston upon Hull — Kingston upon Thames — Kirklees — Knowsley 0 Lambeth 120 Lancashire 0 Leeds — Leicester — Leicestershire — Lewisham 35 Lincolnshire — Liverpool — Luton 10 Manchester 5 Medway Towns 0 Merton 10 Middlesbrough 0 Milton Keynes 10 Newcastle upon Tyne — Newham 50 Norfolk 15 North East Lincs 5 North Lincolnshire 0 North Somerset 0 North Tyneside — North Yorkshire — Northamptonshire 0 Northumberland 0 Nottingham — Nottinghamshire — Oldham 0 Oxfordshire 25
Peterborough 0 Plymouth 0 Poole — Portsmouth — Reading — Redbridge 30 Redcar and Cleveland 0 Richmond upon Thames 35 Rochdale 0 Rotherham 0 Rutland 0 Salford 0 Sandwell — Sefton — Sheffield 5 Shropshire 0 Slough 10 Solihull — Somerset 0 South Gloucestershire — South Tyneside 0 Southampton — Southend 0 Southwark 50 St. Helens 0 Staffordshire — Stockport — Stockton on Tees 0 Stoke-on-Trent — Suffolk — Sunderland 0 Surrey 20 Sutton 5 Swindon — Tameside 0 Telford and Wrekin — Thurrock 40 Torbay 0 Tower Hamlets 0 Trafford — Wakefield 5 Walsall 0 Waltham Forest 40 Wandsworth 10 Warrington — Warwickshire 10 West Berkshire 0 West Sussex 125 Westminster 55 Wigan 0 Wiltshire — Windsor and Maidenhead 0 Wirral 0 Wokingham 0 Wolverhampton 0 Worcestershire 0 York 0 Notes:
- 1. All figures rounded to the nearest five
- 2. '—'Indicates number between one and five that has been suppressed for reasons of confidentiality
- 3. Table excludes any children looked after under a series of short term placements
Source:CLA100 return