Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department holds data on the total number of streamlined forensic reports produced since they were introduced.

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