Forensic Science: Impact Assessment

(asked on 13th September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has produced an impact assessment on the use of streamlined forensic reports.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
This question was answered on 20th September 2023

The Home Office has not conducted any such impact assessment and does not hold this data.

The Home Office funded Forensic Capability Network (FCN) manages and oversees the Streamlined Forensic Reporting (SFR) process on behalf of policing and the criminal justice system. The FCN last published guidance on SFR in January 2023, which can be read here:

https://www.fcn.police.uk/news/2023-01/streamlined-forensic-reporting-sfr-update-winter-2023

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