'What we have seen from Croydon is that it works,' said Sarah Jones. 'What we have seen from Croydon is that it works,' said Sarah Jones. Policing minister says government will'put some parameters' around its deployment in England Labour plans to consult on the use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology before expanding it across England, the new policing minister has told the party's annual conference. Sarah Jones, a Home Office minister, said the government would "put some parameters" over when and where it could be used in future. Campaigners claim the police have been allowed to self-regulate their use of the technology because of the lack of a legal framework and deploy the technology's algorithm at lower settings that are biased against ethnic minorities and women.

Conservative MP Robin Walker, chair of the education select committee, told the BBC's Today programme that the government should focus on the increasing number of students missing up to half their time in school - so-called severe absences.