The British Dental Association has highlighted specific concerns, on ethical, health and accuracy grounds, about using X-rays to assess the age of asylum applicants. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary for listening to these worries, but I would be grateful if my hon. Friend the Minister confirmed that the Age Estimation Science Advisory Committee that has been set up to look at this process could include a practising dentist.
Nationality and Borders Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Aldous
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 22 March 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Nationality and Borders Bill.
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