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Asylum: Age Assurance

Asked by Matt VickersConservativeHome OfficeTabled Answered 10 September 2025UIN 74012

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether trends in levels of age-dispute cases have increased or decreased since June 2024.

Answered by Alex Norris

The requested information is not currently available from published statistics and could only be collated and verified for the purpose of answering this question at a disproportionate cost.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on the number of raised and resolved age disputes is published in table Asy_D05 of the 'Age disputes detailed datasets'. Age disputes data for July 2024 onwards is not available due to ongoing work on a new case working system. Updated data will be included in a future edition of the Immigration System Statistics release.

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