HC Deb 17 May 1978 vol 950 cc173-4W
Mr. Steen

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give a breakdown of the sums made available by the Government to voluntary organisations for community and social work, specifying the amounts given by each Department involved, or planned to be given in the current financial year.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

It is not possible to give figures at this stage since many applications for grants in the current financial year have yet to be decided. Each Department expects to make grants for community and social work in 1978–79 at a

release of this information from the computer.

Mr. Merlyn Rees

No Metropolitan Police computer holds such records. The names and fingerprint references of people charged with recordable offences are added to an index on the police national computer. This information is available only to police. It is removed upon notification of acquittal, except where Section 6(3) of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 and Section 27(3)(a) of the Theft Act 1968 apply and unless the computer already contains the name and reference because the person had been convicted of other recordable offences.