Written questions

Asylum: Age Assurance

2026-07-07 · Home Office · 16990 · Official question

Anneliese Dodds

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has examined the relative margin of error in Facial Age Estimation technology as compared with other methods of age assessment, when it comes to the assessment of age of people

Answer

Assessing age is a complex task, and there is no single or a combination of techniques that are able to determine chronological age with precision.Previously, the Department explored other potential scientific and technological methods, such as the use of...