{"value":{"id":1135118,"memberId":1561,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service","uin":"HCWS1669","dateMade":"2019-06-27T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","title":"Annual Report of the Biometrics Commissioner","text":"<p>My Noble Friend the Minister of State, Home Office (Baroness Williams of Trafford) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement:</p><p>I am pleased to announce that my rt hon Friend the Home Secretary is today publishing the fifth annual report of the Biometrics Commissioner, together with the Government’s response.</p><p>The Commissioner, Paul Wiles, is appointed under Section 20 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. His responsibilities are:</p><ul><li>to decide applications by the police for extended retention of DNA profiles and fingerprints from persons arrested for serious offences but not charged or convicted;</li><li>to keep under review National Security Determinations made by Chief Officers under which DNA profiles and fingerprints may be retained for national security purposes;</li><li>to exercise general oversight of police use of DNA samples, DNA profiles and fingerprints.</li></ul><p>His report is a statutory requirement of Section 21 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012.</p><p>I am grateful to Mr Wiles for this report, which we have published in full.</p><p>Copies of the report will be available from the Vote Office. The Government’s response will be placed in the Libraries of both Houses.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":11,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1135123,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2019-06-27T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1135118","method":"GET"}]}