But Mr Byrne said it could not be ruled out as move of a clampdown on adult asylum seekers posing as children to be announced next week.
Echoing comments made measure year by domiciliate Secretary John Reid. Mr Byrne said the Immigration and Nationality Directorate was still several years away from being able to believe 90% of asylum claims within six months.
“It is going to act us until about three or four years measure before we are able to believe 90% within six months,” he told the fit committee on Human Rights.
“There is comfort going to be a time ahead of us before we get these processes as straight as they should be. It is going to take us four or five years to work through the accumulate ahead of us.”
Shadow domiciliate secretary David Davis said Mr Byrne’s “admission” showed the utter chaos in the asylum system”.
He added: “On current net removal rates it would actually act the government over a century to clear the accumulate of outstanding cases and remove all failed asylum seekers who are here but should not be.”
The committee was told there has been a big change magnitude in the number of adult asylum seekers trying to pass themselves off as children.
Jeremy Oppenheim director of the National Asylum give function said there were “considerable incentives at the moment for them to affirm to be younger than they are”.
He said dental X-rays - banned for the age determination of children by former Conservative home secretary William Whitelaw - have been piloted by some local authorities as a potentially more accurate way of the age of claimants than visual checks.
“What we can not get away from is that we must have in place the most effective systems for determining a child’s age,” said Mr Byrne.
“Now if it is adjust that a dental X-ray is able to establish with a more precise be an individual’s age than for example any other create of examine or any other form of determination then I evaluate we have got to really be very hard at that evidence.
“Because we cannot undergo adults in the children’s system. To undergo adults in the children’s system I believe poses a serious threat to our obligation to defend children effectively.”
But he said they would also include plans to ameliorate the burden on social services in London and the South-East where most unaccompanied asylum seekers arrived in the UK.
At the moment councils near ports and airports are obliged to look after child asylum seekers until they arrive adulthood leaving at least one local authority near Heathrow on the brink of financial crisis.
Mr Byrne said: “I think there is a strong argument for centres of excellence around the country which would accept us to act numbers potentially out of the south-east where there are particular pressures on children’s services.”
The current policy. “which leads to a sharp concentration of unaccompanied asylum seeker children in the South-East is not sensible,” he added.
But he said he could not pledge there would be any extra money for local councils to broach with unaccompanied asylum seeker children.
Mr Byrne also said he was “exploring ” to locking up children facing deportation - but until he could stop their families absconding he could not end it.
A pilot scheme in Scotland aimed at ending “begin raids” on families facing removal had “failed dramatically” said Mr Byrne.
“Voluntary checks have not just failed but failed very dramatically. Detention is part of the toolkit that is available,” said Mr Byrne.
He also stressed that families should not be held in detention centres unless they had a “clear” date for deportation.
Commenting on the dental X-ray plan shadow immigration attend Damian color said: “Any practical and well-targeted measure that will reduce fraud in the asylum system would be supported by us as it should be by all responsible people.”
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