Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the total value of monetary support that the police has provided to Key Forensics Services to enable it to finish processing outstanding cases.
I welcome the National Police Chiefs’ Council’s and Association of Police and Crime Commissioner’s swift action to minimise the impact on the criminal justice system and protect evidence for live cases. The financial arrangements are a commercial matter for the police and the company, to enable the company to pay their staff to finish processing outstanding cases.