A question tabled by Shockat Adam on 22-05-2025 has been answered by Dame Diana Johnson.

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Question ID: 1807732
UIN: 904435
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-05-22
Asking Member ID: 5120
Asking Member display name: Shockat Adam
Asking Member handle: shockatadam
Asking Member Twitter reference: @shockatadam
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that the use of facial recognition and AI technologies by the police is transparent.
Is named day: true
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Date answered: 2025-06-02
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Is holding answer: false
Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 1533
Answering Member display name: Dame Diana Johnson
Answering Member handle: DianaJohnsonMP
Answering Member Twitter reference: @DianaJohnsonMP
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Answer text: Facial recognition is an important tool that assists the police in protecting the public, and identifying the perpetrators of crime, and we want to ensure that we maximise the potential of that technology to support our Safer Streets mission.At the same t...
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Answering body ID: 1
Answering body name: Home Office
Tweeted: true