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Immigration Controls: Age Assurance

Asked by Mr Tanmanjeet Singh DhesiLabourHome OfficeTabled Answered 13 March 2025UIN 35751

The question

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.

Answered by 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 assessment results.

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