Written Question·Home Office·UIN 108169

Police: Biometrics

Tabled: 26 January 2026

Answered: 4 February 2026

Named Day

Question

David Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of compensation schemes for people wrongly identified by live facial recognition technology used by the police.

Answer

Sarah Jones

The Home Office has not assessed the potential merits of a specific compensation scheme for people wrongly identified by live facial recognition used by police.The Home Office has not set a threshold for an acceptable proportion of misidentifications aris...

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