Home Department written question – answered at on 10 October 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent progress the Independent Advisory Panel for the Disclosure of Criminal Records has made in its work.
The Independent Advisory Panel for the Disclosure of Criminal Records (IAPDCR) was formed on
The panel is chaired by Mrs Mason and is attended by experts from a range of backgrounds including the third sector, legal professionals, the Information Commissioners' Office and police.
Since September 2010 the IAPDCR has met regularly to discuss:
whether filtering arrangements should be applied as part of the process to disclose information relating to convictions, cautions etc (“central records”) under the provisions of the Police Act 1997; how such arrangements might be structured to improve the proportionality between civil liberties and the impact on public protection; and how such arrangements might operate alongside other existing legislation, especially the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Mrs Mason is currently in the process of consolidating the opinions of panel members with a view to providing advice to Ministers by the end of October 2011.
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