National Law Enforcement Data Programme

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 1 Sep 2021 Closed: 1 Mar 2022 Parliament page
The Home Office’s National Law Enforcement Data Programme was created to replace the Police National Computer, the national record of data on arrests and missing or wanted persons, and the Police National Database, which facilitates sharing of intelligence between forces. These systems are vital to police operations and are used … Read more
6 Recommendations
27 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
1 Letter
1 Event
Activity timeline 4 events
1 Mar
2022
Report published
8 Dec
2021
Report published
25 Oct
2021
Correspondence
16 Sep
2021
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
16 Sep 2021
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National Law Enforcement Data Programme
Joanna Davinson · Cabinet Office Matthew Rycroft CBE · Home Office Mike Hill · Home Office Stephen Webb · Home Office
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Twenty-Ninth Report - The National Law Enforcement Data Programme HC 638 8 Dec 2021 33 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
4 results
Clear
20 Conclusion Accepted in Part
Twenty-Ninth Report - The National…
The PNC has consistently met its service availability targets in recent years; from January 2020...
The PNC has consistently met its service availability targets in recent years; from January 2020 to March 2021 the PNC’s availability was 99.74%, exceeding the Department’s target of 99.65%. However, in January 2021, the PNC experienced a data loss affecting … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees with the observation and is undertaking specific mitigation activities, such as upskilling internal teams, to extend support for the ageing PNC technology until 2025. They acknowledge a more significant re-platforming effort would require pausing the NLEDP programme for 2-3 years due to funding limitations.
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21 Conclusion Accepted in Part
Twenty-Ninth Report - The National…
Concerning the January 2021 incident, the Department told us that all deleted data had now...
Concerning the January 2021 incident, the Department told us that all deleted data had now been recovered and everything that had gone wrong in January had been put right.38 The Department said that the data had been recovered by the … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees with the implicit recommendation regarding PNC reliability and states that while some software will be unsupported by 2024, mitigation activities like upskilling internal teams and engaging partners are in place, considering this an acceptable risk to ensure continued availability.
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22 Conclusion Accepted in Part
Twenty-Ninth Report - The National…
The Department also confirmed that there had been an outage earlier this year, which was...
The Department also confirmed that there had been an outage earlier this year, which was due to a problem with network availability and the ‘wider PNC ecosystem’ in its Hendon data centre, affecting the ability of the police to access … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees with the implicit recommendation regarding PNC resilience, acknowledging that while some software will be unsupported by 2024, mitigation activities like upskilling internal teams and engaging partners are in place, considering this an acceptable risk.
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23 Conclusion Accepted in Part
Twenty-Ninth Report - The National…
As the NAO reported, the PNC’s current technology will no longer be fully supported beyond...
As the NAO reported, the PNC’s current technology will no longer be fully supported beyond 2024. The Department told the NAO that it had decided to accept the risk of running the PNC without support for the database after 2024.46 … Read more
Government Response
The government agrees with the implicit recommendation to address unsupported PNC technology, stating that while some software elements will be unsupported post-2024, mitigation activities like upskilling internal teams and engaging partners are in place, deeming the remaining risk acceptable.
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Government Response AI assessment · 33 of 6 classified
Accepted 22
Accepted in Part 4
Acknowledged 1
Not Addressed 6
Total 6 recs + 27 conclusions
Correspondence 1 letter
25 Oct 2021 Correspondence from Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, re National Law Enforcement Data Programme – product roadmap, dated 7 October 2021
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