Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bates on 5 February (HL4542), whether the current police information technology systems are capable of accommodating an additional marker, specifically for autism, to be added to the Police National Computer.

For the purposes of speed of implementation it is proposed to use an existing marker to encompass cases of autism rather than developing a specific marker, which would require further significant work and assessment. These proposals are expected to be considered by the Police National Computer Board within the next month.