Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 13 November 2014 to Question 213787, on offences against children: databases, for what reasons the Childbase database was closed in 2011; and whether that database was closed before a replacement database had been established.

The Childbase database was closed in 2011 because it was judged by the former Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre to be inefficient and not viable for upgrading.

Following an information assurance process and before its closure, all of the intelligence held in Childbase was transferred into a new internal database.