To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police staff have been (a) investigated, (b) disciplined and (c) dismissed for unauthorised or improper use of the Police National Computer database in each of the last five years. (276824)

This information is not held centrally, the use of information on the PNC is a matter for individual police forces as is the investigation, discipline and dismissal of police staff.

Access to information on the PNC requires authorisation and the user system logs both what information the user requests and what they are ultimately shown.

The National Policing Improvement Agency has no evidence of the system being breached in the last five years. Any incidents would be addressed by the relevant police force.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many incidents of data on the Police National Computer being supplied to individuals unauthorised to receive it have been recorded in each of the last five years. (276832)

The National Policing Improvement Agency has no evidence of any system breaches within the last five years. Access to information on the PNC requires authorisation and the user system logs both what information the user requests and what they are ultimately shown. Any incidents involving users accessing data for unauthorised purposes would be a matter for the relevant police force.