§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they agree with the opinion expressed in paragraph 3 of Appendix I of the Yellowlees Report that in estimating the age of children by X-rays:
the accuracy attainable is of the order of plus or minus six months".
§ Lord BelsteadThe passage in question is not an opinion but a statement of the accuracy of age assessments obtained in the United States of America and Western Europe using tables of skeletal maturation.