AQW 35451/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Finance
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any steps being taken to ensure that departmental digital procurement standards regulate the use of facial recognition technology in public buildings and services.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 13 November 2025
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 13 November 2025
- Answer due by
- 28 November 2025
- Answered
- 3 December 202520 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Finance
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Procurement policy does not itself set the standards for products or regulate their use. I have no plans to amend procurement policy to seek to regulate the use of these technologies.
The usage of facial-recognition technologies is governed by data protection legislation, which is reserved to Westminster.