EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS JUDGMENT AND THE NATIONAL DNA DATABASE

Early day motion 310, tabled 16 December 2008 by Keith Vaz (Labour). Signed by 48 members.

That this House welcomes the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of S vs Marper; believes that the DNA of innocent people should not be retained in the National Database; notes that 2.3 million offenders do not have their DNA details on the database whereas around 730,000 innocent people do; further notes that Britain has the largest database of this kind in the world with the details of an estimated one in six of the adult population on it by 2012; and calls on the Home Secretary to respond by instructing local police authorities to destroy the DNA they hold where the person has not been convicted of an offence, including hundreds of thousands of innocent individuals.

Signatures by party: Labour 29, Liberal Democrat 14, Conservative 2, Plaid Cymru 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.