Written Question·Home Office·UIN 97805
Police: Biometrics
Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025
Named DayQuestion
Clive Lewis
Labour — Norwich South
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the findings of the report by the National Physical Laboratory, published on 4 December 2025, on the use of facial reco
Answer
Sarah JonesThe Government has already taken action to address the findings of the National Physical Laboratory’s report on the algorithm used for retrospective facial recognition within the Police National Database.The Home Office commissioned the report as the prov...
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