DNA: Databases
(asked on 16th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many requests for information held on the National DNA Database were received by her Department from other countries in each of the last five years.
The first category relates to searches carried out against the National DNA
Database (NDNAD) of DNA profiles from outstanding serious crimes or for the
identification of an unknown deceased person believed to be a UK national.
The below figures are for requested searches undertaken on the basis of a
direct request from the National Crime Agency (NCA) formerly Serious Organised
Crime Agency (SOCA), with the report as to the outcome of each profile
search being issued directly to the United Kingdom National Central Bureau
for Interpol (UK NCB).
| Year | Number of searched profile responses provided to NCA/SOCA[1][2][3] |
| 2009/10* | 377[4] |
| 2010/11 | 548 |
| 2011/12 | 469 |
| 2012/13 | 443 |
| 2013/14 | 409 |
| *Data are not available for the period Oct 2009 – Jan 2010. | |
The second category includes requests for the DNA profile held for a subject on
the NDNAD, where fingerprints have been provided to the country that the
individual currently resides in. Again this is information provided to NCA/
SOCA.
| Year | Number of requests for subject profiles release to NCA/SOCA123 |
| 2009/10 | 138 |
| 2010/11 | 85 |
| 2011/12 | 19 |
| 2012/13 | 14 |
| 2013/14 | 3 |
| [1] The data have been extracted from logs produced by NDNAD (validated as the only source of this information) by the application of the specified criteria (requests directly received from NCA/SOCA). The data were extracted by the manual filtering of Excel Spreadsheets. | |
| [2] The UK NCB is not currently able to provide data on the number of requests received from other countries so these data relate solely to information supplied by the National DNA Database Delivery Unit (NDU). | |
| [3] The data were extracted on 17th June. | |
[4] These figures have been verified on a 1:1 comparison basis. The third category relates to database management information. This provides Requestors are directed to the most recent published statistics on the Home | |