Question follow-through · 108169
Police: Biometrics
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.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 26 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Jan 2026
Question tabled
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.
4 Feb 2026
Target answer date
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4 Feb 2026
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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