Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department will monitor the average time it takes for the police to receive the result of a request to have evidence forensically analysed.

Forensic analysis of evidence is undertaken both in police laboratories and by a number of private sector laboratories. Contractual arrangements or service level agreements between each police force and their forensic service provider and the length of time it takes for forensic evidence to be analysed, are operational matters for the Chief Constable of that force.

As such, the Home Office will not be monitoring the average time it takes for the police to receive the results of requests to have evidence forensically analysed.