Question follow-through · 57363
Asylum: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) the age of refugee children is accurately assessed at the port of entry and (b) they are not inappropriately placed in adult (i) accommodation an
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Asylum · 18 Jun 2025
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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
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that (a) the age of refugee children is accurately assessed at the port of entry and (b) they are not inappropriately placed in adult (i) accommodation an
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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17 Jun 2025
Answer published
It is Home Office policy that an individual claiming to be a child will only be treated as an adult, if two Home Office members of staff independently determine that the individual's physical appearance and demeanour very strongly suggests they are signif...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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