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1181835

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	date	02/03/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 17 February (HL1336), why their response is inconsistent with the press release from the Metropolitan Police following the facial recognition deployments which (1) stated that the individual arrested on suspicion of discharging a firearm was arrested "as part of the wider operation" and not "as a direct result of the facial recognition technology", (2) did not state that any individual was arrested for two counts of rape, and (3) did not state that anyone was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault.
	tabling member printed	Lord Strasburger
	uin	HL2097
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <ol><li>The Written Answer (HL1336) is not inconsistent with the press release from the Metropolitan Police. It referred to the results from the trials, which finished last year, and not the recent deployments of live facial recognition technology.</li><li>Those are matters for the Scottish Parliament, the Metropolitan Police Service and South Wales Police, which are all independent of the Government. The Government supports the police using new technologies like facial recognition to protect the public in accordance with the law.</li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2098 question first answered 16/03/2020 16:55:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4204 label Biography information for Lord Strasburger

1181836

	registered interest
	date	02/03/2020
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Police: Biometrics
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, what assessment they have made of the finding by the Scottish Parliament that there was "no justification" for Police Scotland to use facial recognition technology; and why police in London and South Wales continue to use live facial recognition surveillance.
	tabling member printed	Lord Strasburger
	uin	HL2098
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2020 answer text <ol><li>The Written Answer (HL1336) is not inconsistent with the press release from the Metropolitan Police. It referred to the results from the trials, which finished last year, and not the recent deployments of live facial recognition technology.</li><li>Those are matters for the Scottish Parliament, the Metropolitan Police Service and South Wales Police, which are all independent of the Government. The Government supports the police using new technologies like facial recognition to protect the public in accordance with the law.</li></ol> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford grouped question UIN HL2097 question first answered 16/03/2020 16:55:06 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
	tabling member	4204 label Biography information for Lord Strasburger