Asylum: Age Assurance
Commons · Question 74015 · Tabled 1 Sep 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 17 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Matt Vickers
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of defaulting to a claimant’s self-declared age where no independent verification is available on the provision of effective (a) safegua
Answer
Answered by Alex Norris, 17 Sep 2025
The age of a person arriving in the UK is normally established from the documents with which they have travelled, but many do not have any definitive documentary evidence to support their claimed age.There are clear safeguarding issues which arise if a ch...