Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to implement regulation on the use of facial recognition technology aided by artificial intelligence.

The Government believes that the vast majority of AI systems should be regulated at the point of use and that our existing expert regulators are best placed to do this. Oversight of this technology is distributed across several sectoral regulators and departments, including the Information Commissioner's Office, who ensure its compliance with data protection law. Through delivery of the AI Opportunities Action Plan, we are making sure regulation is well-designed and implemented, to fuel fast, wide and safe development and adoption of AI.