UK Borders Bill
1:30 pm
Iain Wright (Hartlepool, Labour)
I understood you to say that the error rate in terms of fingerprints was one in a billion. You went on to say that in terms of matching hundreds of thousands per population, against another population, the frequency of misidentification is much higher. I am not entirely certain how those two things marry up. An error rate of one in a billion, given that we have a world population of 6 billion, does not seem a bad rate of accuracy to me. Could you just clarify that?