Genetics: Databases

Mr. Greg Knight
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many residents of East Yorkshire and Humberside had samples of DNA recorded on the national DNA database as a result of being sampled by Humberside Police at the latest date for which figures are available.

Meg Hillier
[holding answer 22 April 2008]: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr. Stuart) on 25 March 2008, Official Report, column 71W, in which the figures for Yorkshire and Humberside were provided.