Grant Shapps MP
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Grant Shapps MP (Conservative) MP for Welwyn Hatfield
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[edit] Issues
[edit] DNA database
Very against innocent people being held on the database. Is running a national campaign, "Children off the National DNA Database".
- Fighting to get 27,000 "innocent" Children OFF the National DNA Database. Contained within this number are children who have never been charged or cautioned and in the opinion of this campaign, where the police have no particular suspicion about their being involved in any wrong-doing, they should be removed.
Written question DNA Database 8 January 2007
- To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people under 18 years who have DNA profiles stored on the national database have not been charged or cautioned for an offence; and if he will make a statement.
Written question DNA Database 6 December 2006
- To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have had profiles stored on the National DNA Database since 10 January 2006; how many profiles are stored on the National Database; and if he will make a statement.
Written question DNA Database 4 July 2006
- To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many requests have been received from other nations for details from the national DNA database concerning people who were added to the database when they were under 18 years and not charged or cautioned with any offence.
Plus many more questions on the DNA database
Wrote Early Day Motion 1697 Use of the DNA database 27 Febuary 2006
- That this House expresses its concern about the retention of DNA data taken from children aged 10 to 18 years who have never been charged or cautioned with any offence; notes large regional differences in retention policy between various police forces; and believes that this imbalance is being further exacerbated by the Government's unwillingness to issue clear guidelines to chief constables about the removal of innocent children from the National Police DNA Database.
[edit] Identity cards
Signed Early Day Motion 263 Identity Cards 06 June 2005
- That this House believes that a convincing case for the introduction of compulsory biometric identity cards and a national database has not been made, that the risks involved far outweigh any discernible benefit, that the introduction of identity cards will fundamentally change the relationship between the citizen and the state, diminish personal privacy and threaten civil liberties, that the present proposals do not provide properly costed, proportionate or effective solutions to the problems they are claimed to solve; and calls upon the Government to shelve plans for their introduction.
[edit] Freedom of Information
Signed Early Day Motion 2699 Freedom of Information 10 December 2006
- That this House welcomes the finding of the Constitutional Affairs Committee (HC991) that the Freedom of Information Act has `already brought about the release of significant new information and....this information is being used in a constructive and positive way' and the committee's conclusion that it sees `no need to change' the Act's charging arrangements; views with concern reports that the Government is considering changing these arrangements to permit an application fee to be charged for all requests or to allow authorities to refuse, on cost grounds, a significant proportion of requests which they currently must answer; and considers that such changes could undermine the Act's benefits of increased openness, accountability and trust in the work of public authorities.
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[edit] News
- 2007-01-09 - ARCH - So that’s a ‘no’, then.
- Summary: Just before Christmas, we mentioned that we were still waiting for answers to parliamentary questions about the retention of children’s DNA tabled by Grant Shapps MP. ... But apparently the Home Office can’t give the figure for the number of unconvicted juveniles on the National DNA Database…?
- 2006-02-16 - BBC - Under-18s DNA records to continue
- Summary: Police can keep storing the DNA profiles of thousands of children and young people, ministers have decided.Tory MP Grant Shapps last month pressed for the details of 24,000 under-18s never cautioned, charged or convicted to be removed from the police database.He claimed a national DNA database was being created by stealth.
