PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Immigration: Age (15 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to The Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2024, whether those Regulations have been implemented; and whether scientific age assessments are taking place.

Asked by:
Chris Philp (Conservative)

The Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2024 came into force in January of this year.

We are committed to strengthening our age assessment process.

We are taking a holistic approach to prevent adults claiming to be children or children being wrongly treated as adults – as both present serious safeguarding risks to children.

Answered by:
Dame Angela Eagle (Labour)
22 October 2024