Intelligence Databases

Natascha Engel
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2006, Official Report, column 720W, on intelligence databases, on what dates the procedures listed came into force; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. McNulty
Since 1995, local police forces have held the responsibility for creating and updating data on PNC. Since that date, those forces have also been responsible, for putting in place arrangements with their local non police prosecuting agencies to receive data on people those agencies are seeking to prosecute. The Criminal Records Bureau commenced providing criminal records disclosures in March 2002. The Police National Database is to be introduced in 2009-10.