David T. C. Davies – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David T. C. Davies on 2016-02-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers who claim to be under the age of 18 have undergone independent testing to determine their age in each of the last three years.

James Brokenshire

We publish statistics on cases where the claimant’s age has been disputed and a formal age assessment has been carried out. The table below shows the number of cases in each of the last 3 years.

Data is taken from published statistics

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2015/asylum

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