Mr. Batesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any organisations other than the police will have access to the information on the police national computer.
§ Mr. Roy JenkinsAccess to information from police records on the police national computer will be confined strictly to police forces. The computer will also contain a limited amount of information from the motor taxation record of each vehicle registered under the centralised vehicle licensing system at Swansea. The Investigation Division of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise sometimes needs information from these vehicle records; since it would in any case properly be available to them from Swansea, but less conveniently, I have agreed that they may have access to the vehicle registration information on the police computer. Suitable safeguards will be observed to ensure that such access is limited to the purposes for which I have authorised it.