Written Question·Home Office·UIN 35751

Immigration Controls: Age Assurance

Tabled: 5 March 2025
Answered: 13 March 2025

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

Labour — Slough

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of suspected age misidentifications at the UK border in each of the last five years.

Answer

Dame Angela Eagle
There is no single age assessment technique, or combination of techniques, able to determine age with complete precision, but the Government continues to work to establish the best available processes and techniques to improve the accuracy of our age asse...
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