Asylum: Age Assurance
Lords · Question HL16147 · Tabled 27 Mar 2026 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 14 Apr 2026
Question
Asked by Baroness Hamwee
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Hanson of Flint on 20 October 2025, what recent progress they have made in the testing of facial age estimation technology for assessing the age of asylum seekers.
Answer
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint, 14 Apr 2026
In the Government’s Immigration White Paper, published in May 2025, we committed to strengthening the age assessment process. As set out in the statement on Restoring Order and Control, the Home Office has since commissioned trials to identify the most pr...