Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in how many immigration or asylum cases during the last 12 months where a person has claimed to be under the age of 18, that person has been treated as an adult on the basis that their appearance or demeanour strongly suggests they are significantly over the age of 18.

This information is not currently published or readily available and could be obtained only through the examination of individual records at disproportionate cost.

The Home Office is looking into ways to improve the statistical recording of age dispute information.