Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that biometric data is deleted with minimal delay when arrests are made unlawfully or incorrectly.

All chief officers of police must comply with the legal requirement under
section 63D(2)(b) of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (as inserted by
section 1 of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012) on destroying the
fingerprints and DNA belonging to individuals who have been unlawfully
arrested. In January 2014, the Home Office issued guidance to chief officers on
early deletion which addresses this issue.

I expect chief officers to comply with the law with minimal delay.