Asylum: Age Assurance
2026-07-07 · Home Office · 16994 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what datasets, images or other personal data have been used to train, validate or test the Facial Age Estimation technology intended for use in asylum age assessments.
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...