Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps have been taken to ensure (a) transparency and (b) community accountability in trials of facial recognition technology involving Palantir in (i) Leicester and (ii) the UK.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office is not aware of any direct involvement by Palantir in the police’s use of facial recognition systems.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department carried out a Public Sector Equality Duty assessment before signing a contract with Palantir.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office is not aware of any direct involvement by Palantir in the police’s use of facial recognition systems.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the risk assessments carried out on the use of facial recognition technology by Palantir Technologies in policing, especially on privacy and discrimination issues.

Answered by Sarah Jones - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Home Office is not aware of any direct involvement by Palantir in the police’s use of facial recognition systems.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of recommendations in the Windrush Lessons Learned Review on its Earned Settlement proposals.

Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The earned settlement public consultation ran for 12 weeks and closed on 12 February 2026. We are now reviewing and analysing all responses received. This analysis will help inform the development of the final earned settlement model, including consideration of any potential exemptions or transitional measures for those already on a pathway to settlement.

Once the final model has been decided, the Government will communicate the outcome publicly. As with all significant policy changes, the proposals will be subject to both economic impact assessments and equality impact assessments which we will publish as well as the Government’s response in due course.

We have already set out that grants of settlement related to the Windrush Scheme will not be impacted by the settlement reforms.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment has her Department made of the potential impact of the earned settlement model on Black migrant women who face (a) labour market exclusion due to abuse, (b) caring responsibilities, (d) trauma and (e) insecure immigration status.

Answered by Mike Tapp - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

The earned settlement public consultation ran for 12 weeks and closed on 12 February 2026. We are now reviewing and analysing all responses received. This analysis will help inform the development of the final earned settlement model, including consideration of any potential exemptions or transitional measures for those already on a pathway to settlement.

Once the final model has been decided, the Government will communicate the outcome publicly. As with all significant policy changes, the proposals will be subject to both economic impact assessments and equality impact assessments which we will publish as well as the Government’s response in due course.

We have already set out that grants of settlement related to the Windrush Scheme will not be impacted by the settlement reforms.

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