Clive Lewis MP: written questions
4 Jul 2025–3 Jul 2026
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Written questions
Police Custody: PhotographsHome OfficeTabled 23 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129496More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory requirement for the deletion of custody images where no (a) charge and (b) conviction follows.
Answer: The retention and deletion of custody images is currently governed by the statutory Police and Information Management Code of Practice, and the associated College of Policing’s Management of Police Information (MoPI) guidance and Authorised Professional P...
Answered 28 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordBiometricsHome OfficeTabled 23 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 129495More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has issued guidance on using experimental methods in conjunction with facial recognition.
Answer: The Home Office has not issued specific guidance. Police use of facial recognition and similar technologies is currently governed by a legal framework that includes data protection, equality and human rights laws, national guidance, a code of practice and...
Answered 28 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordBiometrics: ResearchHome OfficeTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 125305More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has issued on using experimental methods in conjunction with facial recognition; and who is responsible for enforcing that guidance.
Answer: The Home Office has not made a final assessment of the cost‑effectiveness of police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in comparison to traditional policing methods. However, when the government introduces legislation on a new framework this ...
Answered 20 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordCCTV: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 125304More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of integrating facial recognition into existing CCTV infrastructure on civil liberties.
Answer: The Home Office has not made a final assessment of the cost‑effectiveness of police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in comparison to traditional policing methods. However, when the government introduces legislation on a new framework this ...
Answered 20 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice Custody: PhotographsHome OfficeTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 125303More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of introducing a statutory requirement for the deletion of custody images where no charge or conviction follows.
Answer: The Home Office has not made a final assessment of the cost‑effectiveness of police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in comparison to traditional policing methods. However, when the government introduces legislation on a new framework this ...
Answered 20 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordSurveillanceHome OfficeTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 125300More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the proportionality of deploying mass surveillance technology to address low level offences.
Answer: The Home Office has not made a final assessment of the cost‑effectiveness of police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in comparison to traditional policing methods. However, when the government introduces legislation on a new framework this ...
Answered 20 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 10 Apr 2026AnsweredUIN 125298More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the cost-effectiveness of police use of live facial recognition technology in comparison to traditional policing methods.
Answer: The Home Office has not made a final assessment of the cost‑effectiveness of police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in comparison to traditional policing methods. However, when the government introduces legislation on a new framework this ...
Answered 20 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordImmigration: Fees and ChargesHome OfficeTabled 24 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 123350More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether an impact assessment into the policy paper on Home Office immigration and nationality fees, due to increase from 8 April 2026, has been conducted.
Answer: Where changes to fee legislation are made, Impact Assessments are produced which identify potential impacts resulting from the changes.The published Impact Assessment includes discussion of the impacts of the fees that are due to increase from 8 April 202...
Answered 26 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordBiometrics: Ethnic GroupsHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119370More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the safeguards in place to mitigate racial and other bias in the use of retrospective facial recognition technology.
Answer: The Home Secretary has commissioned His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMICFRS) to conduct an inspection of police and relevant law enforcement agencies’ use of retrospective facial recognition. The detail of the inspection and publication of ...
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordBiometrics: Police National DatabaseHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119369More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance is in place relating to the thresholds at which retrospective facial recognition searches of the Police National Database may be operated.
Answer: The Home Secretary has commissioned His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMICFRS) to conduct an inspection of police and relevant law enforcement agencies’ use of retrospective facial recognition. The detail of the inspection and publication of ...
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119368More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Idemia facial recognition algorithm for Home Office strategic facial matching will be rolled out across police forces.
Answer: The Home Secretary has commissioned His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMICFRS) to conduct an inspection of police and relevant law enforcement agencies’ use of retrospective facial recognition. The detail of the inspection and publication of ...
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordBiometrics: ArrestsHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119367More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she has taken to determine the number of people who may have been wrongly arrested or questioned by police as a result of incorrect facial recognition matches produced by the Cognitec FaceV
Answer: The Home Secretary has commissioned His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMICFRS) to conduct an inspection of police and relevant law enforcement agencies’ use of retrospective facial recognition. The detail of the inspection and publication of ...
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordBiometrics: ArrestsHome OfficeTabled 10 Mar 2026AnsweredUIN 119366More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people who may have been wrongly arrested or questioned by police as a result of incorrect facial recognition matches produced by the Cognitec FaceVACS-DBSc
Answer: The Home Secretary has commissioned His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary (HMICFRS) to conduct an inspection of police and relevant law enforcement agencies’ use of retrospective facial recognition. The detail of the inspection and publication of ...
Answered 25 Mar 2026
Original Parliament recordLord MandelsonHome OfficeTabled 5 Feb 2026AnsweredUIN 111175More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether (a) she or (b) any members of her Department met or corresponded with Lord Mandelson on Palantir.
Answer: No such meetings took place.
Answered 13 Apr 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101782More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 15 December 2025 to Question 97805 on Police: Biometrics, what the (a) planned timescales and (b) terms of reference are for the two HMICFRS reviews referred to.
Answer: The Home Office is aware of the risk of bias in facial recognition algorithms and supports policing in managing that risk. Initial findings from independent testing carried out by the National Physical Laboratory were shared with the Home Office in March ...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101781More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to UIN 97805 answered on 15 December 2025, whether estimates have been made of the number of potential misidentifications made by police as a result of potential bias in the PND facial search
Answer: The Home Office is aware of the risk of bias in facial recognition algorithms and supports policing in managing that risk. Initial findings from independent testing carried out by the National Physical Laboratory were shared with the Home Office in March ...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 2 Jan 2026AnsweredUIN 101780More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to UIN 97805 answered on 15 December 2025, when the Home Office first learned of potential bias in the current PND facial search algorithm.
Answer: The Home Office is aware of the risk of bias in facial recognition algorithms and supports policing in managing that risk. Initial findings from independent testing carried out by the National Physical Laboratory were shared with the Home Office in March ...
Answered 8 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordPolice: BiometricsHome OfficeTabled 8 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97805More
Question: 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: 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...
Answered 15 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigration: EqualityHome OfficeTabled 4 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 97147More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish an Equalities Impact Assessment for her proposed earned settlement model.
Answer: Details of the earned settlement model will be finalised following the conclusion of the ongoing public consultation.An equality impact assessment will then be published in due course.
Answered 5 Jan 2026
Original Parliament recordVisas: Married PeopleHome OfficeTabled 1 Dec 2025AnsweredUIN 95688More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the application of the new individual earnings requirement applies to spouses of UK citizens who are retired, carers, or stay-at-home parents.
Answer: On 20 November, we launched a public consultation on our proposed earned settlement model.The command paper accompanying that consultation puts forward a general requirement to have earnt at least £12,570 per annum for three years in order to settle in th...
Answered 9 Dec 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93028More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there will be transitional arrangements for people due to be eligible for indefinite leave to remain from 2026 onwards.
Answer: The current public consultation on the new earned settlement model seeks views on whether there should be transitional arrangements for those already on a pathway to settlement.We will then consider, if appropriate, how transitional arrangements may be de...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordImmigrationHome OfficeTabled 20 Nov 2025AnsweredUIN 93027More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether proposed indefinite leave to remain eligibility changes will apply to existing visa holders.
Answer: The current public consultation on the new earned settlement model seeks views on whether there should be transitional arrangements for those already on a pathway to settlement.We will then consider, if appropriate, how transitional arrangements may be de...
Answered 25 Nov 2025
Original Parliament recordUndocumented Migrants: Proof of IdentityHome OfficeTabled 16 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 82698More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of mandatory digital ID in tackling illegal immigration.
Answer: The Digital ID programme is part of a broader strategy to tackle illegal immigration. By making it harder for people without the right to work to gain employment, the government plans to reduce incentives for unlawful entry. Mandating digital ID for rig...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrison Officers: Migrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76287More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data the Government holds on the percentage of prison officers employed via the worker visa route.
Answer: Published visa data is available at Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.
Answered 6 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordPrisons: Migrant WorkersHome OfficeTabled 10 Sept 2025AnsweredUIN 76286More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made with the Secretary of State for Justice of the potential impact of recent changes to the eligibility criteria for skilled worker visas on prison staff.
Answer: On 12 May, the Government published our Immigration White Paper, outlining our future approach to legal migration routes. On 22 July the first phase of changes took effect, including raising the threshold for Skilled Worker visas to graduate level occupat...
Answered 22 Sept 2025
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