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Written question asked by Jenny Willott (Liberal Democrat) on Wednesday, 14 October 2009, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 16 October 2009. It was answered by Alan Campbell (Labour) on Wednesday, 21 October 2009 on behalf of the Home Office.

DNA: Databases

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many profiles have been removed from the national DNA database by each police force in each month since 9 March 2009; and if he will make a statement.
Answer

Table 1 shows the number of subject profiles removed from the National DNA Database under the exceptional case procedure, i.e. following a request to the chief officer of the responsible police force from the person concerned, in each month from 9 March 2009 to 15 October 2009. The table covers subject profiles from English and Welsh forces and the British Transport police.

Table 1: Number of subject profiles removed from the National DNA Database by each police force from 9 March 2009 to 15 October 2009
Force 9 to 31 March April May June July August September 1 to 15 October
Avon and Somerset 0 3 0 2 0 0 2 0
Bedfordshire 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
British Transport Police 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Cambridgeshire 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Cheshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
City of London 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Cleveland 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0
Cumbria 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 2
Derbyshire 1 0 0 1 3 8 2 0
Devon and Cornwall 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
Dorset 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
Durham 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Dyfed Powys 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Essex 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0
Gloucestershire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Greater Manchester 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0
Gwent 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Hampshire 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0
Hertfordshire 0 0 4 16 4 2 2 0
Humberside 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Kent 0 1 4 2 4 0 5 0
Lancashire 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Leicestershire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lincolnshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Merseyside 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Metropolitan 5 4 13 7 4 9 10 1
Norfolk 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
North Wales 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
North Yorkshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Northamptonshire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northumbria 1 0 0 2 5 1 0 0
Nottinghamshire 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0
South Wales 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
South Yorkshire 0 0 3 0 8 1 0 0
Staffordshire 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0
Suffolk 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Surrey 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 0
Sussex 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
Thames Valley 0 1 1 4 0 1 1 1
Warwickshire 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
West Mercia 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1
West Midlands 0 4 0 1 2 2 5 0
West Yorkshire 3 0 1 0 3 1 1 2
Wiltshire 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 13 19 36 47 50 35 43 12

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
497 c1532-4W; 294061
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Databases DNA
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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