Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the police use the passport database for facial recognition searches.

The sharing of passport data with law enforcement agencies for the purpose of preventing and detecting crime is longstanding, and is provided for within His Majesty’s Passport Office’s Privacy Information Notice:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hmpo-privacy-information-notice#full-publication-update-history