| Heading: |
Undocumented Migrants: Biometrics |
| Question ID: |
1811053 |
| UIN: |
58584 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-10 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4084 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Esther McVey
|
| Asking Member handle: |
|
| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Esther McVey
|
| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what biometric tests her Department expects police to carry out on immigrants arriving in the UK illegally. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
|
| Date answered: |
2025-06-18 |
| Date answer corrected: |
|
| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
491 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Dame Angela Eagle
|
| Answering Member handle: |
angelaeagle
|
| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@angelaeagle
|
| Correcting Member ID: |
|
| Correcting Member display name: |
|
| Correcting Member handle: |
|
| Correcting Member Twitter reference: |
|
| Answer text: |
The Home Office requires the collection of biometric data (facial images and fingerprints) from all individuals who enter the UK unlawfully. We use them to confirm a person’s identity and to assess whether the person poses a threat to public safety. Biome... |
| Original answer text: |
|
| Comparable answer text: |
|
| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |