| Heading: |
Asylum: Children |
| Question ID: |
1814422 |
| UIN: |
61259 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-19 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5156 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jess Asato
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| Asking Member handle: |
jess4lowestoft
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@jess4lowestoft
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of her Department's age-assessment process for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children; and what steps she is taking to ensure that children are treat |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-26 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
491 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Angela Eagle
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| Answering Member handle: |
angelaeagle
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@angelaeagle
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
Assessing the age of unaccompanied children is an incredibly complex and difficult task, and the Home Office is currently assessing which scientific methods and artificial intelligence can best improve age assessment methods. The Government will inform Pa... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |