Question follow-through · 69749
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to put in place a range of measures to verify the age of people arriving in the UK seeking asylum.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2025 · 42 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 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to put in place a range of measures to verify the age of people arriving in the UK seeking asylum.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2025
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the written ministerial statement I gave to the House on Tuesday 22 July.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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