Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidelines her Department issues to police forces on requiring lists of goods seized from a company during an investigation to be produced within a specified timescale.

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Code of Practice B, section 7 ‘Seizure of Property’, paragraph 16 is clear that, ‘if property is retained, the person who had custody or control of it immediately before seizure must, on request, be provided with a list of description of the property within a reasonable time’.