Written Question·Home Office·UIN 74013

Asylum: Age Assurance

Tabled: 1 September 2025
Answered: 10 September 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times her Department has recorded an asylum claimant’s self-declared age as their official age in circumstances where their age could not be independently verified since June 2024.

Answer

Alex Norris
The requested information is not currently available from published statistics and could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at a disproportionate cost.The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration Syste...

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