Clause 10
Counter-Terrorism Bill
4:00 pm
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, Law Officers; Beaconsfield, Conservative)
Both this set of amendments and the next set, which stands in my name, touch on exactly the same issue, which has been rightly highlighted by the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome. Although they both suggest a slightly different way of approaching the matter, and I shall come on to my amendments at the right time, nevertheless their main thrust is essentially identical.
It is no secret that, on a number of occasions, I have expressed my growing concern at the departure from the normal rule, which used to prevail until the middle of the 1990s, that only the DNA and fingerprints of a convicted person were retained and placed on the national database.