Question follow-through · 53707
Biometrics: EU Countries
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to have discussions with her EU counterparts on UK access to EU facial images data.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 May 2025
- Answer
- 29 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she plans to have discussions with her EU counterparts on UK access to EU facial images data.
22 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 May 2025
Answer published
The Home Office is in regular discussions with European counterparts on a range of issues relating to law enforcement, including the exchange of data.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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