Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he plans to introduce a national missing persons database.

We are working with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) through the Home Office National Law Enforcement Data Programme (NLEDP) to deliver a National Register of Missing Persons (NRMP) which will enable us to have a snapshot of live missing incidents across police forces in England and Wales. This will assist officers when they encounter a missing person particularly if that missing person is outside their home force area.

We are currently working towards the NRMP to be in use operationally in 2020/2021.