Question follow-through · 84956
Arrests: Biometrics
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of arrests that have been made following police use of facial recognition technology.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 24 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 5 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the number of arrests that have been made following police use of facial recognition technology.
28 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Home Office does not hold data on the number of arrests made following the police’s use of facial recognition technology. The department is, however, funding national evaluation to understand the impact of facial recognition on police and crime outcom...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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