Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, further to the answer to question UIN 92784, and in light of the publication of the Metropolitan Police Annual Report on the use of live facial recognition (LFR) in September 2025, if she will ask all police force areas to collect and publish similar and consistent data on its use; and if she will collect and collate this at a national level, to ensure Parliamentary scrutiny on the uses of this technology.

The Police Reform Bill will introduce a new legal framework to underpin law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies, and this will give due consideration to reporting and transparency.