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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have information about the ethnicity of those whose data are included in the national DNA database; and, if so, whether they will publish the information.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

8 December 2009

The National DNA Database (NDNAD) does not hold self-reported ethnicity data, but data on the "ethnic appearance" of persons who have a DNA profile on the database. The ethnic appearance data have six broad ethnic categories plus "unknown". They are based on the judgment of the police officer taking the sample and are recorded for police intelligence purposes to assist in subsequent identification. The ethnic appearance data have only been recorded for volunteer samples since 2005. The table below shows the number of DNA profiles on the NDNAD broken down by ethnic appearance, as at 16 October 2009. "Unknown" means that no ethnic appearance was recorded by the officer taking the sample. The number of profiles held is not the same as the number of individuals. This is because some profiles are replicates—ie, 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. It is estimated that 13.8 per cent of the subject profiles held on the entire NDNAD are replicates. Data on the number of subject profiles retained on the NDNAD broken down by ethnic appearance are published in the NDNAD annual reports. The latest annual report for 2007-09 is published on the NPIA website at http://www.npia.police.uk/en/14399.htm.

Ethnic Appearance Breakdown of subject profiles retained on NDNAD for all forces as at 16 October 2009 (1)
Ethnic Appearance (2)	Subject Profiles	Percentage
Unknown (3)	539,038	9.12%
Asian	315,166	5.33%
Black	436,897	7.39%
Chinese, Japanese or any other south east Asian	38,864	0.66%
Middle Eastern	45,399	0.77%
White-North European	4,419,812	74.78%
White-South European	114,996	1.95%
Total	5,910,172	100.00%

"(1) The table shows data on profiles loaded by all forces (England and Wales, Scotland, PSNI, plus other forces such as Joint Armed Services, Isle of Man, Jersey, et cetera).""(2) The ethnic appearance categories were renamed during 2008-09. The new category names are shown in the table.""(3) The number of "unknowns" is partly accounted for by Scotland, which does not record ethnic appearance data." "(2) The ethnic appearance categories were renamed during 2008-09. The new category names are shown in the table.""(3) The number of "unknowns" is partly accounted for by Scotland, which does not record ethnic appearance data." "(3) The number of "unknowns" is partly accounted for by Scotland, which does not record ethnic appearance data."

Notes

Question originally printed on 3 December 2009 at 715 c74-5WA with incorrect answer.

Date

8 December 2009

Reference

278; 715 c105-6WA

House

House of Lords

National DNA Database

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have information about the ethnicity of those whose data are included in the national DNA database; and, if so, whether they will publish the information.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Notes

Answer corrected on 8 December 2009 at 715 c105-6WA.

Date

3 December 2009

Reference

278; 715 c74-5WA

House

House of Lords

Biometric Data

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to legislate to abide by the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights of 4 December 2008 in S and Marper v United Kingdom so as to end the practice of holding DNA samples of individuals who are arrested but later...

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Notes

Question printed on 19 November 2009.

Date

12 November 2009

Reference

6206; 715 c243WA

House

House of Lords

Biometric Data

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in S. and Marper v. the United Kingdom has been implemented in relation to the functions of the UK Border Agency.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 November 2009

Reference

6305; 714 c196WA

House

House of Lords

Asylum Seekers

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will publish the UK Border Agency's asylum process instruction about storage and retention of DNA and isotope data of asylum seekers.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 November 2009

Reference

6304; 714 c194WA

House

House of Lords

Statute Law Database

My Lords, does the Minister agree that it is in the best interests of employers, trade unions, business enterprises and ordinary men and women that we should replace the present opaque, lumpish morass of anti-discrimination legislation with a single equality Act that is user-friendly? Does he also agree that we need to devise a scheme whereby employers and trade unions are rewarded, if there is a proper job evaluation scheme, with some transitional protection to enable equal pay to be brought about at last, all these years after the 1970 Act?

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

24 February 2009

Reference

708 c100

House

House of Lords

National DNA Database

My Lords, the European Court pointed out that we are alone in Europe in having totally indiscriminate use of this material. It particularly focused on Scotland as an example of good practice. Is there anything to stop the Government implementing the judgment soon by making a remedial order under the Human Rights Act to put English law in the same position as Scottish law?

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Oral questions - Supplementary

Status

Answered

Date

9 December 2008

Reference

706 c265

House

House of Lords

Human Rights Judgments: Joint Committee on Human Rights Report

Lords debate on motion to take note of the report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights on Monitoring the Government's Response to Human Rights Judgements: Annual Report 2008 (HL 173 2007-08). Agreed to on question.

Lead member

Lord Lester of Herne Hill

Answering member

Lord Bach

Department

Ministry of Justice; Joint Committee on Human Rights

Type

Debates on select committee reports

Date

24 November 2008

Reference

705 c123-44GC

House

House of Lords

Data Protection

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will change the computer software of Government computers so as to make it impossible to transfer protected personal data held by them without complying with data protection principles and procedures.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 December 2007

Reference

474; 696 c211WA

House

House of Lords

Health: Personal Medical Records

What information is being provided to patients about how their personal medical records are retained and used by the National Health Service.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

21 November 2006

We believe that the summary care record will deliver very significant benefits for safety and the efficient management of National Health Service services. Information for safe and efficient care is not always available under current systems. Medication errors, poor record documentation and communication failures are among the top five causes of injury to patients. The best research-based estimates suggest that in National Health Service hospitals alone, adverse events inwhich harm is caused to patients occur in 10 per cent of admissions. Electronic records and clinical communications provide hugely powerful tools significantly to reduce the causes, and the human and financial cost, of medical errors. Electronic prescribing, with the NHS care records service at its core, linked to appropriate decision support, can massively reduce the percentage of drug prescriptions in which misreading or mistranscription leads to the wrong drug being prescribed or the recommended safe maximum dose being exceeded. Following extensive consultation with the public about these benefits and the practical difficulties of populating 50 million summary care records, we have decided that a small amount of key information relating to prescribed medicines and known adverse reactions to drugs should initially be placed on the NHS database by automated means from general practitioners' records. The benefits, both in terms of improved patient care and safety and cost efficiencies, justify this action. We recognise, however, that some may have concerns and so we are giving people the choice of asking for their record to be ““flagged”” so that no one can see it without their consent and this choice can be registered in advance of a record being created for them. This means that the information will be there for the great majority that want safer more joined-up care, while giving those who remain unsure a choice. When the new NHS care records service systems are fully deployed, there will be a range of new controls in place. The staff of NHS organisations will be able to access systems and records only if they have a current secure smartcard and valid pass code. No one will be able to access clinical data unless they are working in a team that is providing care to the patient concerned or checking the quality of care provided. Additional controls will give patients control over whether specific entries in their records should be seen without their express consent. There will be exceptional arrangements for overriding restrictions in the event that a patient is unconscious or if a court requires disclosure of the records, but in these exceptional circumstances the system will generate an alert to ensure that an appropriately senior member of staff is informed and can properly investigate the occurrence. The introduction of the summary care recordwill be preceded by an extensive communication campaign within each community prior to its being introduced locally. This will cover what information the NHS keeps about them, how it is used, the safeguards in place and people's options for putting restrictions on who can access information about them, so that everyone has the opportunity to make this choice. This builds on local efforts to inform the public about how information is used that have been a local responsibility since the introduction of the Data Protection Act 1998. The department has also produced what we believe is the most comprehensive privacy statement of any public service in the form of the NHS care record guarantee for England, setting out 12 commitments the NHS makes to patients in order to protect their confidentiality. A copy of the guarantee is available in the Library.

Date

21 November 2006

Reference

63; 687 c1-3WA

House

House of Lords

Health: Personal Medical Records

What is the justification for including personal medical records on the National Health Service spine database without patients' consent; and

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

21 November 2006

Date

21 November 2006

Reference

62; 687 c1-3WA

House

House of Lords

Health: Personal Medical Records

asked Her Majesty's Government:What safeguards are in place to ensure the confidentiality of personal medical records on the National Health Service spine database; and

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Answered on

21 November 2006

Date

21 November 2006

Reference

61; 687 c1-3WA

House

House of Lords

McIntosh of Haringey, Lord

Whether they intend to create a citizens' information register to bring together the existing information held by the Government and their agents on the citizens of the United Kingdom [HL 4616] - Inc text of letter from Len Cook, the Registrar General and ref to http://www.statistics.gov.uk/registration/cip.asp.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Registrar General

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 October 2003

Reference

653 c112-3WA; HL 4616

House

House of Lords

Irvine of Lairg, Lord

What obstacles, if any, are impeding the bringing into force of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by October 2002 in relation to central government departments. [HL 1297].

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

26 November 2001

Reference

HL 1297; 629 c7WA

House

House of Lords

Irvine of Lairg, Lord

Whether they will seek to ensure that the European Commission maintains up-to-date legal electronic data regarding implementation of directives by the United Kingdom on the Celex database. [HL 704].

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 February 2000

Reference

HL 704; 609 c55WA

House

House of Lords

Irvine of Lairg, Lord

What restrictions they impose upon the reporting of judgments of United Kingdom courts on legal databases. - There are no government restrictions.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 January 1998

Reference

584 c120WA

House

House of Lords

Irvine of Lairg, Lord

Whether they permit judgments of United Kingdom courts to be reported on legal databases in a manner that indicates whether such judgments have been over-ruled or distinguished in subsequent judgments; and, if not, why not. - Includes fact that there are no government restrictions imposed upon the reporting of judgments...

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

12 January 1998

Reference

584 c120WA

House

House of Lords

Mackay of Clashfern, RtHonLord

How, if at all, publication on the Internet by HMSO of the full texts of all new Acts of Parliament will affect the future policy and operation of the Statutory Publications Office in respect of the Statute Law Database project. - Not at all.

Asked by

Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

19 March 1996

Reference

570 c97WA

House

House of Lords

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