Migrant age assessment plans ‘certainly not scientific’ – Lord Winston

Testing migrants’ teeth and bones to verify whether they are children is “using the instruments of science” but is certainly not scientific, ministers have been warned.

Home Office ministers faced questions about the accuracy and safety of using X-rays and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans to verify the ages of migrants, as they put the measures to a vote in the House of Lords.

The Lords gave its backing to the plans, which