Claim: At times up to 20% of adult men arriving at the Western Jet Foil asylum processing centre in Dover claim to be under 18.
Fact-check: No published data to support minister's claim about migrants saying they're under 18 - Full Fact
Verdict: there is no published data to support this claim. the home office told us it was based on provisional operational data, which has not been made public. the office for statistics regulation has written to the home office about its use of the statistic.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Sarah Turnnidge
Date published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00