Written Question·Home Office·UIN 61259

Asylum: Children

Tabled: 19 June 2025
Answered: 26 June 2025

Question

Jess Asato

LabourLowestoft

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's age-assessment process for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; and what steps she is taking to ensure that children are treat

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
Assessing the age of unaccompanied children is an incredibly complex and difficult task, and the Home Office is currently assessing which scientific methods and artificial intelligence can best improve age assessment methods. The Government will inform Pa...

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