Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department has given to the Metropolitan Police on (a) governance, (b) retention and (c) oversight arrangements on continuous integrity screening in the Metropolitan Police's Unified Data Platform trial.

Police Forces are operationally independent, and the Home Office does not monitor whether ethical reviews have been conducted by Police Forces, nor has the department issued guidance on the Metropolitan Police’s governance, retention or oversight arrangements for continuous integrity screening in the trial.

However, the Home Office has provided support to the National Data and Analytics Office (NDAO) in the NPCC to issue guidance to forces on the procurement of data integration and exploitation tools, covering commercial best practice, technical requirements to support interoperability and data protection impact considerations.