Written Question·Home Office·UIN 93503

Migrants: Age Assurance

Tabled: 21 November 2025

Answered: 1 December 2025

Question

Graeme Downie

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what plans she has to use Artificial Intelligence to (a) determine and (b) confirm the age of groups other than asylum seekers.

Answer

Alex Norris

Assessing age is a complex task and no method or combination of methods can definitively determine age. In order to strengthen the age assessment system, the Home Office is exploring facial age estimation technology. Work has been commissioned to test and...

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