Written Question·Home Office·UIN 74014
Asylum: Age Assurance
Tabled: 1 September 2025
Answered: 17 September 2025
Question
Matt Vickers
Conservative — Stockton West
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure that recording an asylum claimant’s self-declared age does not place adults at risk of being accommodated with children.
Answer
Alex NorrisThe age of a person arriving in the UK is normally established from the documents with which they have travelled, but many do not have any definitive documentary evidence to support their claimed age.There are clear safeguarding issues which arise if a ch...
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