Twenty-Ninth Report - The National Law Enforcement Data Programme

Select Committee
Public Accounts Committee HC 638 8 December 2021
Report Status Government responded
Conclusions & Recommendations 33 items (6 recs)
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Government Response (AI assessment · 33 of 33 classified)
Accepted 22
Accepted in Part 4
Acknowledged 1
Not Addressed 6
Government response
Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Twenty Ninth report from Session 2021-22 · published 1 Mar 2022
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Recommendations & Conclusions

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20 Conclusion Accepted in Part
The PNC has consistently met its service availability targets in recent years; from January 2020...
Conclusion
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 Summary
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
Concerning the January 2021 incident, the Department told us that all deleted data had now...
Conclusion
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 Summary
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
The Department also confirmed that there had been an outage earlier this year, which was...
Conclusion
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 Summary
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
As the NAO reported, the PNC’s current technology will no longer be fully supported beyond...
Conclusion
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 Summary
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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