Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which body set up the National Image Hashing Database; which agency hosts that Database; and who is responsible for meeting its costs.

The interim National Hash Set Database was set up by the combined effort of the National Policing Improvement Agency, Home Office Scientific Development Branch, Association of Chief Police Officers Digital Forensics Triage group, and law enforcement agencies including the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre. Cheshire Constabulary host and operate the database. It is funded from the National Cyber Security Programme.