Written question asked by Philip Davies (Conservative) on Wednesday, 9 May 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 11 May 2018. It was answered by Nick Hurd (Conservative) on Tuesday, 15 May 2018 on behalf of the Home Office.
DNA: Databases
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many DNA profiles of prisoners still serving a sentence have not yet been added to the DNA database.
- Answer
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It has been standard practice for the police to take DNA profiles from all persons arrested for a recordable offence for many years. If the person is then convicted, their DNA profile is retained indefinitely. The proportion of prisoners whose profiles are not on the database is therefore likely to be very small.
Secondary information
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- Written question
- Reference
- 142389
- Session
- 2017-19
- Subjects
- Databases DNA Prisoners
- Contains statistics
- Yes
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- 2018-05-15 15:49:09 +0100
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