Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times her Department has disputed the age of someone claiming to be a child when making an asylum application in the last 12 months.

The Home Office publishes the number of age disputes raised in each quarter in table as_10_q, in volume 3 of the asylum data tables: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/546760/asylum3-q2-2016-tabs.ods

The numbers of disputed cases are reported in section 13 ‘Age Disputes’ of the Asylum chapter, in the Immigration Statistics release: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-april-to-june-2016/asylum