Written Question·Home Office·UIN 97805

Police: Biometrics

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Clive Lewis

LabourNorwich 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 Jones
The 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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