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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the familial searches of the national DNA database have resulted in a prosecution since the creation of that database.

Asked by

David Davis (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 April 2010

Reference

508 c1261W; 325267

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his contribution on Second Reading of the Crime and Security Bill, 18 January 2010, Official Report, column 35, if he will provide detailed information on each of the 36 cases of DNA data being held on the National...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 March 2010

Reference

508 c932-3W; 318422

House

House of Commons

Surveillance

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the compatibility of (a) his Department's programme of intercepting communications data and (b) the proposed Interception Modernisation Programme with the requirements of the Data Retention (EC Directive) Regulations 2009.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

28 January 2010

Reference

504 c1047W; 313534

House

House of Commons

Fingerprints: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people with records on the national fingerprint database were aged (a) under 10, (b) from 10 to 15, (c) 16 or 17 and (d) 18 or more years old in each year since 1997.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

1 December 2009

Reference

501 c675W; 302365

House

House of Commons

Departmental Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent estimate he has made of the error rate in each database run by (a) his Department and (b) its agencies.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 November 2009

Reference

501 c468W; 300731

House

House of Commons

Telecommunications: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the proportion of communications covered by the current interception of communications data procedures; and what estimate he has made of the likely proportion of coverage in each of the next 10 years should the...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 October 2009

Reference

498 c539W; 295824

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what proportion of (a) white, (b) black and (c) Asian (i) men and (b) women aged (A) 10 to 15, (B) 16 to 17 and (C) 18 or more years old were on the national DNA database...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

14 October 2009

For answer on

16 October 2009

Answered on

27 October 2009

The national DNA database (NDNAD) is constantly changing as profiles are added and deleted. It is not possible to produce information retrospectively on the state of the database in past years, unless this was collected by statistics produced at the time. The information sought on the number of those on the NDNAD by the ethnicity, gender and age groups specified is available for 31 March 2009 and 31 March 2008 and is provided in table 1. Some information is also available for 31 March 2007, and is provided in table 2. The information sought is not available for years before 2007.The tables show the number of profiles held, which is not the same as the number of individuals. This is because some profiles are replicates i.e. more than one profile is held for one individual. This may occur if, for example, an individual gives different names, or different versions of their name, on separate arrests. As at 31 March 2009, the replication rate on the NDNAD as a whole was 13.5 per cent. The tables show data on profiles loaded by all police forces.It is not possible to calculate accurately the proportion of members of ethnic groups in the population as a whole who are on the NDNAD because the data held on the NDNAD are not directly comparable with census population data. The NDNAD does not hold self-reported ethnicity data on arrested persons who have a DNA sample taken, but on their 'ethnic appearance'. The ethnic appearance data is based on the judgment of the police officer and is recorded for police intelligence purposes to assist in subsequent identification. It uses six broad ethnic categories (plus 'unknown') whereas census data is based on 16 ethnic groups self-reported by individuals.

Table 1
Gender	Ethnic appearance	Current age as at 31 March 2009	Profiles retained at 31 March 2009	Current age as at 31 March 2008	Profiles retained at 31 March 2008
Female	Unknown	10-15	1,855	10-15	2,929
		16-17	4,116	16-17	5,099
		18+	89,878	18+	83,266
	Asian	10-15	914	10-15	888
		16-17	1,598	16-17	1,384
		18+	33,839	18+	27,807
	Black	10-15	2,859	10-15	2,902
		16-17	4,274	16-17	4,109
		18+	76,008	18+	63,843
	Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian	10-15	83	10-15	93
		16-17	203	16-17	199
		18+	9,340	18+	7,472
	Middle Eastern	10-15	70	10-15	50
		16-17	89	16-17	84
		18+	3,290	18+	2,689
	White—North European	10-15	32,912	10-15	36,756
		16-17	52,699	16-17	53,528
		18+	813,093	18+	701,320
	White—South European	10-15	636	10-15	617
		16-17	868	16-17	721
		18+	17,621	18+	14,330

Male	Unknown	10-15	4,537	10-15	7,313
		16-17	10,139	16-17	13,538
		18+	382,983	18+	360,727
	Asian	10-15	4,314	10-15	4,281
		16-17	7,625	16-17	7,275
		18+	244,229	18+	208,640
	Black	10-15	7,277	10-15	7,038
		16-17	11,242	16-17	11,062
		18+	310,471	18+	274,282
	Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian	10-15	216	10-15	197
		16-17	443	16-17	378
		18+	25,019	18+	20,168
	Middle Eastern	10-15	500	10-15	323
		16-17	999	16-17	739
		18+	36,300	18+	30,467
	White—North European	10-15	72,265	10-15	81,248
		16-17	109,096	16-17	114,249
		18+	3,115,325	18+	2,790,097
	White—South European	10-15	1,335	10-15	1,187
		16-17	1,921	16-17	1,690
		18+	82,818	18+	70,090

Gender not recorded	Unknown	10-15	45	10-15	46
		16-17	73	16-17	258
		18+	34,449	18+	34,460
	Asian	10-15	18	10-15	17
		16-17	34	16-17	48
		18+	591	18+	476
	Black	10-15	44	10-15	26
		16-17	33	16-17	34
		18+	487	18+	376
	Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian	10-15	1	10-15	1
		16-17	2	16-17	2
		18+	83	18+	72
	Middle Eastern	10-15	1	10-15	1
		16-17	4	16-17	2
		18+	106	18+	94
	White—North European	10-15	336	10-15	419
		16-17	458	16-17	475
		18+	4,868	18+	4,289
	White—South European	10-15	11	10-15	9
		16-17	5	16-17	11
		18+	164	18+	122

Table 2
Data as at 31 March 2007	Profiles retained
Current age as at 31 March 2007
10-15	151,882
16-17	206,449
18+	4,069,684


Ethnic appearance (not including those with gender not recorded)
Unknown	415,793
Asian	210,801
Black	315,779
Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian	22,803
Middle Eastern	29,261
White—North European	3,316,161
White—South European	78,219

Gender
Male	3,524,657
Female	864,160

Date

27 October 2009

Reference

498 c287-92W; 294185

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people now aged over 10 years old on the national DNA database had their profile added to the database when they were under the age of 10; and how many were in each age group under 10 years...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

27 October 2009

Reference

498 c291W; 294202

House

House of Commons

Fingerprints: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people on the national fingerprint database aged (a) under 10, (b) 10 to 15, (c) 16 to 17 and (d) 18 or more years old had no conviction, caution, formal warning or reprimand recorded on the police national...

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 October 2009

Reference

497 c1539W; 294184

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many arrests have been made of people who were matched to a crime using the national DNA database but who were not subsequently charged with an offence in the latest period for which figures are available.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 July 2009

Reference

496 c912-3W; 285950

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many staff of each organisation authorised to use the national DNA database have been (a) investigated, (b) disciplined and (c) dismissed for unauthorised or improper use of that database in each of the last five years;

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

18 May 2009

For answer on

20 May 2009

Answered on

20 July 2009

Direct access to information on the National DNA Database (NDNAD) is restricted to a limited number of designated personnel under the control of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), either directly, or under a contract awarded to the Forensic Science Service (FSS) for operation and maintenance of the NDNAD and development of its IT systems. Throughout the lifetime of the contract, the FSS are required to demonstrate compliance with specified security requirements. Police and law enforcement personnel do not have access to the information on the NDNAD, but receive reports from the NDNAD Delivery Unit of matches between DNA taken from crime scenes and that taken from individuals.In relation to those NPIA and FSS staff, there has been one instance of unauthorised use of the database during the last five years. This involved a contractor working for the FSS who was found to have used an administrator account on the IT system rather than his own. Following an investigation by the NPIA, no evidence of any improper access to database records was found. However, as use of the administrator account was in contravention of security procedures, the individual was removed from further work on the database. No incidents of unauthorised or improper use of match reports by police and law enforcement personnel have been reported to the NDNAD in the last five years.Since the NDNAD was set up in 1995, two instances of loss of data have been reported. These took place in February 2009 when the FSS faxed DNA reports intended for two police forces to incorrect fax numbers. In both instances, the faxes were either retrieved by the police or destroyed within 36 hours of the event. A thorough investigation was undertaken by the NPIA and reported to the Home Office. No evidence was found of any malicious intent by any individual.As a result of the investigation into this incident, an existing project to replace use of fax was accelerated. As from 17 April 2009, fax has no longer been used to transmit any DNA reports to forces. They are now sent in line with Cabinet Office guidance over a secure network either by email or as a web service on a secure network.

Date

20 July 2009

Reference

496 c911W; 276825

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

(2) whether loss of data obtained from the national DNA database has been reported by any organisation which has access to (a) the database and (b) data from the database.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

18 May 2009

For answer on

20 May 2009

Answered on

20 July 2009

Date

20 July 2009

Reference

496 c911W; 276826

House

House of Commons

Identity Cards

Identity cards. Fifteenth opposition day debate (part 2). Motion negatived on division (293 to 206). Amendment agreed on division (283 to 203).

Lead member

Lord Grayling

Answering member

Alan Johnson

Department

Home Office

Type

Opposition days

Date

6 July 2009

Reference

495 c757-809

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions a person has been arrested but not charged with an offence following their being suspected of a crime as the result of the use of the national DNA database.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 June 2009

Reference

495 c165W; 281957

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people who have not been convicted of a crime have their fingerprint records retained on the National Fingerprint Database.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

25 June 2009

Reference

494 c1049W; 279618

House

House of Commons

DNA: Databases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 5 November 2008, Official Report, columns 601-02W, on genetics: databases, into what category of offence each record identified on the Police National Computer fell.

Asked by

Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 June 2009

Reference

493 c877W; 271976

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

Answered by

Alan Johnson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

28 February 2005

Reference

431 c632-3

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

Answered by

Alan Johnson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

28 February 2005

Reference

431 c632-4

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

Answered by

Alan Johnson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

28 February 2005

Reference

431 c632-3

House

House of Commons

Dept for Work and Pensions

Answered by

Alan Johnson (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

28 February 2005

Reference

431 c632-3

House

House of Commons

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