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UK Borders Bill

I shall not be able to do that this afternoon. Cases like that are very rare. We all know that fingerprint collection has been going on in the world of criminal investigation for well over 100 years and probably longer than that. From time to time, of course, there will be an occasional error, but it has proved to be an extremely reliable source of providing evidence and matching a person to a crime. Without it, many high-profile cases would never have been cracked. It is a proven science. There will always be the occasional error, but we have a great deal of experience in that and internationally it is viewed as being very reliable. We have built it into our thinking and that is the case internationally. On the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay, I shall try to provide some more background for Members of the Committee. That would be quite a useful exercise and it might offer some greater measures of reassurance.