Question follow-through · 21282
Biometrics
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether processes are in place to manually decouple British citizens' biometric profiles from persons of interest once a false-positive match can be established at e-gates.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether processes are in place to manually decouple British citizens' biometric profiles from persons of interest once a false-positive match can be established at e-gates.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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8 Sept 2026
Answer published
The eGates check biometric details of passengers against their passports, whilst a separate biographic check is made against watchlists of persons of interest.Where a watchlist match is subsequently assessed as a false positive, capability to further dist...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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