United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 74014
Asylum: Age Assurance
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1 September 2025
Last action
17 September 2025 · Answer
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Answered
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Asylum
Source updated
17 September 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure that recording an asylum claimant’s self-declared age does not place adults at risk of being accommodated with children.
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1 September 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what safeguards are in place to ensure that recording an asylum claimant’s self-declared age does not place adults at risk of being accommodated with children.
Source: Commons
17 September 2025
Answer
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...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-09-01/74014
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1830797
- uk · wq-1830797 · source updated 17 September 2025