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Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield, Conservative)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people under 18 years have DNA profiles stored in the police national database without having been charged or cautioned for any offence.

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Hazel Blears (Minister of State (Policing, Security and Community Safety), Home Office; Salford, Labour)

At the 31 October 2005 there were 3,466,792 subject sample profiles loaded to the National DNA Database. Of these 741,605 related to people who were under 18 at the time the sample was taken.

We cannot currently determine how many of the people sampled were not subsequently charged or cautioned. Technical changes to the link between the Police National Computer and the National DNA Database to enable this information to be captured are under consideration by the Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO).

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