Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 July 1990.
Mr Robin Corbett
Shadow Spokesperson (Business, Innovation and Skills), Shadow Spokesperson (Home Affairs)
12:00,
12 July 1990
Will the Minister be more positive about setting up the register? He knows that the Association of Chief Police Officers is entirely in favour of it. My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) has already mentioned the 98,000 young people who go missing on the streets of our towns and cities every year. The police national computer mark 2 is ready to come on stream. Will the Minister assure the House that he will set up that register as soon as conceivably posssible?
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