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Prisons: Databases

Volume 506: debated on Friday 5 March 2010

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John McDonnell

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice (1) when the Local Inmate Database System was introduced; (320082)

(2) what plans there are for the establishment of the Local Inmate Database System (LIDS); and what plans there are for the future of the national LIDS database.

Maria Eagle

The Prison Service Local Inmate Database System (LIDS) was introduced in 1989.

LIDS is being replaced by a new case management system, called Prison-NOMIS (Prison-National Offender Management Information System). Prison-NOMIS is a national system with a centralised database. It is on schedule to be deployed to public prisons by summer 2010.