Question follow-through · 54464
Immigration Controls: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of assessments undertaken by the National Age Assessment Board that were subject to a legal challenge in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024; and how many and wha
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 5 Jun 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
22 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of assessments undertaken by the National Age Assessment Board that were subject to a legal challenge in (a) 2023 and (b) 2024; and how many and wha
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Jun 2025
Answer published
The number of age assessments undertaken by the National Age Assessment Board that were subject to a legal challenge was 22 in total (1 in 2023 and 21 in 2024).20 of the 22 age assessments decisions were successfully defended (91%).
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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