Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to ensure that the public can feed into the work of the Scientific Advisory Committee's advice on ways of checking how old an asylum seeker is; and what the process is for submitting evidence to that committee.
The Home Office is committed to drawing on a range of evidence and expertise in the formulation of policy. The Age Estimation Scientific Advisory Committee is already in discussions with a range of relevant experts and is reviewing a wide body of literature. Any relevant published, peer-reviewed literature may be sent to the Age Estimation Scientific Advisory Committee mailbox for consideration. Contact details for the Committee can be found on the Committee’s gov.uk webpage.