Question to the Home Office:

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.

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.