Asked by: Lord Wasserman (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many specialist employees the Police Digital Service has who are (1) members of the British Computer Society or (2) Fellows of the British Computer Society.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
Tony Eastaugh CBE was appointed on 19 August 2024 as Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Police Digital Service (PDS). Any changes to these arrangements will be a matter for the PDS. More information about the leadership of the PDS is available on the PDS website: https://pds.police.uk/about-us/.
Appointments to PDS roles, the required skills of PDS employees and what professional memberships they should hold are a matter for the PDS.
The governance arrangements of the PDS Board, including the Articles of Association and Board Membership is available on the PDS website: https://pds.police.uk/governance/. Details of current and former directorships can be found on the on Companies House Website.
Asked by: Kieran Mullan (Conservative - Bexhill and Battle)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2024 to Question 19427 on the Police National Computer, what proportion of PNC records relate to dead people.
Answered by Diana Johnson - Minister of State (Home Office)
The data could only be obtained for the purposes of answering this question at disproportionate cost.
May. 20 2024
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Asked by: Kieran Mullan (Conservative - Bexhill and Battle)
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to her Department's publication entitled Number of working-age individuals with a record on the PNC, published on 28 October 2024, what proportion of these records relate to individuals that (a) are convicted, (b) facing pending prosecutions, (c) been issued cautions, (d) involved in cases where no further action was required (e) been arrested but not charged and (f) are deceased.
Answered by Nicholas Dakin - Government Whip, Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury
The information requested is provided in the table attached. This table includes data on the:
Proportion of the records on the Police National Computer (PNC) in each category specified, by offenders of working age.
This analysis looks at the proportion of records that fall into the categories a – d. It does not provide the proportion of individuals as each individual offender may have a record in each category. It is not possible to answer parts (e) and (f), as the Ministry of Justice extract of the PNC does not contain the information required. Arrest information (part e) is a matter for the Home Office.
Written Evidence Nov. 27 2024
Inquiry: Scaling up - AI and creative techFound: ACT0035 - Scaling up - AI and creative tech Computer and Communications Industry Association Written
Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) Misuse Act 1990 to enable legitimate independent testing of computer systems. - Speech Link
2: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) My Lords, the need to be able to carry out independent research into computer systems has been put into - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) My Lords, does the Minister agree that there is a related issue of computer-based evidence? - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None evidence(1) Electronic evidence produced by or derived from a computer, device or computer system (separately - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) is agreed by those who know about computer information. - Speech Link
3: Lord Tarassenko (XB - Life peer) Every computer scientist or software engineer will readily acknowledge that computer systems have a latent - Speech Link
Review legislation governing the admissibility of computer evidence
- Final Signatures: 132
Legislation limiting the admissibility of computer evidence was repealed in 1999, and we want the Government to review current rules on the admissibility of computer evidence, and implement any necessary reforms, such as a legally binding duty to disclose any known defects in the computer system.
Found: We believe the current rules about the admissibility of computer evidence are inconsistent with the burden
Jan. 10 2025
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Jan. 16 2025
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