The Home Office has ruled out calls for dental X-ray checks to verify the age of Calais refugees arriving in Britain criticising them as “inaccurate, inappropriate and unethical”.
The official rejection of the demand from Conservative backbenchers was welcomed by the British Dental Association, which had earlier condemned the proposal as inappropriate and inaccurate.
David Davies, chairman of the Commons Welsh affairs select committee, had said dental checks or hand X-rays to check bone density should be used to check ages and stop Britain’s hospitality being abused.
He said: “People in Britain want to help children but we don’t want to be take for a free ride either, by people who seem to have got to the front of the queue even though they clearly look in some cases a lot older than 18.”
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