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Written question asked by Jenny Willott (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 8 July 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 13 July 2009. It was answered by Paul Goggins (Labour) on Monday, 20 July 2009 on behalf of the Northern Ireland Office.


Departmental Databases

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what databases which will be managed by his Department or one of its agencies and which will contain personal information are (a) under construction and (b) expected to become operational in each of the next five years; and if he will make a statement.
Answer

Details of databases which will be managed by the Northern Ireland Office or one of its agencies which will contain personal information currently under construction or expected to become operational in each of the next five years are listed in the following table.Any personal data which will be stored in these databases will be subject to the Data Protection Act and to the Northern Ireland Office data protection policy. Also following the publication of the cross-government data handling review in June 2008, new projects and programmes that hold significant amounts of personal data are obliged to conduct privacy impact assessments.

Database name Under construction/Expected to go live
2009
Replacement Visitor to Inmate Recognition and Bookings System (VIRBS) The Northern Ireland Prison Service is currently looking for a replacement for the existing VIRBS system—it will go live in 2009 or 2010 depending on the chosen solution
Replacement Secure Image Processing System (SIPS) The Northern Ireland Prison Service is currently looking for a replacement for the existing SIPS system—it will go live in 2009 or 2010 depending on the chosen solution
Juvenile Justice Centre Incidents Database Expected to go live over the next three months
2010
Youth Justice Agency Case Management System This project is at an early stage and will not go live before 2010
2011
Nil
2012
Nil
2013
Nil

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
496 c781-2W; 286507
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Databases Northern Ireland Office
Link
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