Children charged with Immigration Act offences
Request
How many children (individuals under the age of 18) have been charged with offences under sections 24(D1) or 25(1) of the Immigration Act 1971 since May 2022?
Response
Since May 2022 and up to and including 21 June 2023, 164 offences have been charged (and have reached a first hearing at a Magistrates' Court) under the sections requested above of the Immigration Act 1971.
None of those defendants charged were under the age of 18.
Caveats
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) caseload data are available through its Case Management System (CMS) and associated Management Information System (MIS). The CPS collects data to assist in the effective management of its prosecution functions. The CPS does not collect data which constitutes official statistics as defined in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
These data have been drawn from the CPS's administrative IT system, which, as with any large-scale recording system, is subject to possible errors with data entry and processing. The figures are provisional and subject to change as more information is recorded by the CPS. We are committed to improving the quality of our data and from mid-June 2015 introduced a new data assurance regime which may explain some unexpected variance in some future data sets.
The official statistics relating to crime and policing are maintained by the Home Office and the official statistics relating to sentencing, criminal court proceedings, offenders brought to justice, the courts and the judiciary are maintained by the Ministry of Justice.
OFFENCES CHARGED
- The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the number of offences in which a prosecution commenced and reached a first hearing at magistrates’ courts.
- There is no indication of final outcome or if the charged offence was the substantive charge at the time the case was finalised.
- A single defendant may be prosecuted for multiple offences.
Data Source: The CPS Case Management Information System.