Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people were scanned by live facial recognition systems in (a) England and (b) Essex in the last 12 months; and what proportion of those people were not suspected of any crime.

The Home Office does not hold data on the number of people scanned following the police’s use of facial recognition technology.

Where police forces are using live facial recognition technology (LFR), the number of arrests made following each deployment are published on their respective websites. For example, the data for Essex Police’s deployments are here Live facial recognition | Essex Police

and the Metropolitan Police has published a Live Facial Recognition Annual Report.