HC Deb 26 April 1995 vol 258 cc562-3W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the abandonment of the advanced fingerprint recognition system. [20685]

Mr. Maclean

The national automated fingerprint identification system—NAFIS—which is being procured by the Government on behalf of the police forces of England and Wales, remains on schedule for implementation from 1998. So far as the termination of the contract between the AFR Consortium and IBM for the provision of automated fingerprint recognition services is concerned, I refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on 5 April at columns1249–50.