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2000-01
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what requirements he sets for the accurate monitoring of DNA testing. - Including ref to the Home Office Circular 16/95: National DNA Database.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what requirements he sets for the accurate monitoring of DNA testing. - Including ref to the Home Office Circular 16/95: National DNA Database.
Asked by
Ian Gibson
(Labour)
Answered by
Charles Clarke
(Labour)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
26 February 2001
For answer on
1 March 2001
Answered on
1 March 2001
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what requirements he sets for the accurate monitoring of DNA
testing. [151681]
Mr. Charles Clarke: The DNA database is a national database which currently holds details of individuals suspected, cautioned and
convicted of a recordable offence, together with their DNA profiles.
The Home Office Circular 16/95: National DNA Database sets out the general conditions relating to the establishment and use of the
National DNA database.
DNA profiling technologies have developed rapidly over the last 10 years. Significant advances have been made resulting in improved
sensitivity and these enable DNA to be extracted from increasingly smaller crime scene stains. The current technique, FSS
SGMplus{TM}, analyses 11 areas on the DNA molecule. FSS SGMplus{TM} has been in use since September 1999 and has a discriminatory
power of 1 in a billion. This has a considerable advantage over the SGM technique previously used, which had a discriminatory power
of 1 in 50 million.
The reliability of DNA evidence is assured through the internal quality assurance measures adopted by the Forensic Science Service
and through their external accreditation by the British Standards Institute and the United Kingdom Accreditation Service to the BS
EN ISO 9000 and M10 National Standards. This independent accreditation of the DNA process involves regular audit to ensure the
standards are maintained.
Subjects
Databases; Codes of practice; Criminal investigation; Genetics; Identification of criminals; Monitoring; Quality control; Standards; Testing; Forensic Science Service
Date
1 March 2001
Reference
151681; 363 c747W
House
House of Commons