Asylum: Age Assurance
Lords · Question HL10624 · Tabled 17 Sep 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 1 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Baroness Hamwee
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have used, or plan to use, artificial intelligence?to assess the age of asylum seekers; if so, from what date; what consultation on its use has been undertaken or is planned; whether the results of such consult
Answer
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint, 1 Oct 2025
Assessing age of unaccompanied children is an incredibly complex and difficult task. The Home Office is considering whether scientific and technological methods and artificial intelligence tools (such as facial age estimation technology) can improve age a...