§ Mr. BerminghamTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 27 January,Official Report, column 403, if he will state which of the police forces in England and Wales currently comply with guidelines adopted by the Home Office and Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Services on the destruction of DNA profiles of persons excluded from or acquitted of offences; which police forces in England and Wales remove such profiles from their own databases; which do not; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Peter LloydApart from the Home Office and Metropolitan police forensic science services, I am not aware of any police force in England and Wales which has developed, or is intending to develop, a database to hold DNA profiles.
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§ Mrs. RumboldThe latest available information is given in the table.