Ministerial role
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Criminal Information
Organisations:
Home Office
Responsibilities
Responsibilities include all Home Office business in the Lords, including the Serious Crime Bill.
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State is also responsible for policy on criminal information, including:
- use of DNA and reform of DNA database
- CCTV and ANPR
- Disclosure and Barring Service
- Security Industry Authority
- criminal records and criminal information systems
- criminality information
- safeguarding vulnerable people
- Home Office science
- identity
- powers of entry
- statistics and research
- freedom of information
- local government and communities
- sustainability and environmental issues
- better regulation
- equality and diversity
- correspondence champion
- transparency
Previous holders of this role
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The Rt Hon Lord Bates
2014 to 2015
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The Rt Hon Lord Taylor of Holbeach CBE
2012 to 2014