To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any proposals for guidelines to govern the national and international use of DNA analysis; and if he will make a statement.

We have no immediate plans for guidance in this area. My right hon. Friend asked the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice to consider the use of DNA and we await its recommendations.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what provision is made for the destruction of the DNA profiles of persons cleared of committing an offence; and if he will make a statement.

Guidelines adopted by the Home Office and Metropolitan police forensic science services provide that DNA profiles of persons excluded from or acquitted of offences are removed from the central database and the sample from which the profile is taken is also destroyed.