Written Question·Home Office·UIN 108170

Police: Biometrics

Tabled: 26 January 2026
Answered: 4 February 2026
Named Day

Question

David Davis

ConservativeGoole and Pocklington

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has set a threshold for an acceptable proportion of misidentifications arising from police use of live facial recognition.

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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