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Written question asked by Norman Baker (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 18 July 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 24 July 2006. It was answered by Liam Byrne (Labour) on Monday, 4 September 2006 on behalf of the Home Office.


Information Technology

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether (a) his Department, (b) MI5 and (c) the Metropolitan Police (i) uses and (ii) has used (A) TeraText and (B) Latent Semantic Indexing programmes.
Answer

[holding answer 24 July 2006]: MI5 neither confirm nor deny their use of TeraText and Latent Semantic Indexing programmes. The Metropolitan Police does not use either of these programmes. Home Office Corporate Services report that they use Latent Semantic Indexing in Meridio as part of the Electronic Document Record Management Project. None of the other constituent parts of the Home Office use either of these programmes.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
449 c1842W; 87622
Session
2005-06
Subjects
Databases ICT Home Office Metropolitan Police
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk