GETTY Mr Johansson explained the measure would help to keep migrants safe

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The Swedish Migration Agency claim there is reason to doubt as many as 70 per cent of asylum applicants who say they are between the ages of 15 and 17. But doctors have hit out at the tests, claiming there is no reliable way to test someone’s age. The nation’s justice and migration minister Morgan Johansson said: “This is not just about asylum procedure, it’s about the safety of the accommodation.

GETTY The Swedish migration agency claim there is reason to doubt 70 per cent of applicants

“Adults should live with adults and children should live with children, which is why this should be done as early as possible in the procedure.” It comes after David Cameron was forced to U-turn on a decision to stop extra unaccompanied child refugees from entering the UK last month. The Prime Minister announced the climbdown as Downing Street acted to head off a Tory rebellion.

GETTY Sweden’s Board of Forensic Medicine confirmed that the tests could not be completely precise

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The Government had previously been opposed to offering shelter to an extra 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees who had already made their way to Europe. But ministers have been forced into a reverse decision after backbench Conservatives signalled they were ready to inflict a damaging House of Commons defeat on the Government over the issue. Ann Lemne from Sweden’s National Board of Forensic Medicine confirmed that the tests could not be completely precise.

GETTY One of the methods of testing age is an MRI scan of the subject's kneecap