Question follow-through · 16992
Asylum: Age Assurance
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of potential bias and differential error rates in Facial Age Estimation technology procured by the Home Office by ethnicity, skin tone, sex and country of origin.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2026 · 7 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
8 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of potential bias and differential error rates in Facial Age Estimation technology procured by the Home Office by ethnicity, skin tone, sex and country of origin.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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15 Jul 2026
Answer published
Assessing age is a complex task, and there is no single or a combination of techniques that are able to determine chronological age with precision.Previously, the Department explored other potential scientific and technological methods, such as the use of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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