Oral question asked in the House of Commons, by Dominic Grieve (Conservative). It was answered on Thursday, 20 March 2008 on behalf of the Solicitor General.

Crown Prosecution Service

Question: I am a little troubled by the length of time the inquiry is taking. On the face of it, if some of the background facts that have already come into the public domain are correct, it would seem that the answers to the inquiry are probably fairly simple, yet as the Solicitor-General will appreciate, particularly from the question she has just received, some of the disquiet centres on the fact that we still do not have the inquiry report. Will she assure the House that it will be brought forward as quickly as possible? I am a little troubled about the length of time it is taking given that the facts seem fairly simple.

Answer: Probably the most important fact for me to confirm is that the results of the matching process have been returned to the Dutch. We have completed the inquiry into where the disk was at any given time, and by the end of the month it is expected that the CPS will have looked at responsibility for that. The third strand, to which I have just alluded, is the one on which our ACPO officers and the Dutch police are now able to take matters forward. We will produce the results as soon as we can.

Secondary information

Type: Oral question
Reference: 473 c1069-70
Session: 2007-08
Oral question type: Supplementary
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Subjects: Databases Crime Genetics International cooperation Netherlands Crown Prosecution Service
Link: View this Oral question on www.publications.parliament.uk