Asked by: Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department will extend eGate access to holders of Indefinite Leave to Remain.
Answered by Jo White - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
Some holders of Indefinite Leave to Remain are already eligible to use eGates where they meet the current requirements, including those relating to their biometric passport, age, digital immigration status and the nationality shown in their travel document, or where they qualify through the Registered Traveller Service.
The Government is exploring options to expand eGate eligibility to the majority of passenger arrivals in the UK. Any changes to eligibility will be announced once decisions have been made.
Asked by: Rupa Huq (Labour - Ealing Central and Acton)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether, further to his Department's consultation on the Modernising Payment Services Regulation, his Department has assessed the specific risks associated with the use of facial recognition technology by banks and payment service providers.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Economic Secretary (HM Treasury)
Technology has a central role in the financial services sector's future success. The UK is creating an environment where firms, including banks and payment service providers, can safely adopt new innovations, including facial recognition technology.
To support the delivery of the Government’s vision for a trusted, world leading payments ecosystem delivered on next generation technology, the Government has consulted on proposals to modernise payment services regulation. This sought views on how the current regulation for payment services and electronic money needs to be updated to account for new innovations in the payments landscape, whilst ensuring strong consumer protections. The Government is currently considering responses to this consultation.
As part of this consultation, the Government reaffirmed its commitment to reforming the payment’s authentication regulations relating to Strong Customer Authentication in the Payment Services Regulations 2017. This will enable the Financial Conduct Authority to replace the existing requirements and make more outcomes-based rules about payments authentication.