Question follow-through · 125303
Police Custody: Photographs
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.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 10 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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- Police Custody: Photographs · 23 Apr 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Apr 2026
Question tabled
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.
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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20 Apr 2026
Answer published
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Police Custody: Photographs
23 Apr 2026 · 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.