According to The Register: Information sharing, the publication of crime data and support for the e-Borders programme are all in the Home Office Structural Reform Plan. A draft of the plan has been published on the department’s website. It places an emphasis on tackling crime and anti-social behaviour, increasing the accountability of the police, securing [...]
Kate Devlin, writing in the Herald, reports a speech given by Ed Miliband to members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery: In a speech to journalists yesterday, Ed Miliband also called for Labour to return to its old values on civil liberties which, he suggested, had become skewed over time. Although he pledged to attack ministers [...]
Lyn Whitfield writes in EHI Primary Care about the recent NHS white paper which gives a major role to “Choose and Book” in new proposals for the NHS: But it is much vaguer on the future of electronic records, particularly the Summary Care Record and its linked patient portal, HealthSpace, and commercial alternatives such as [...]
The Committee stage of the Identity Documents Bil has now ended. Lynne Featherstone MP, who sits on the relevant committee, has blogged about one particular proposed opposition amendment, in turn quoting a blog entry from Zoë O’Connell: It’s nice to see an MP who one voted for doing some positive work on issues that affect [...]
Mike Crockart, MP for Edinburgh West and a former Lothian and Borders Police officer, writes in the Scotsman: Experts like Professor Allan Jamieson at Glasgow’s Forensic Institute are convinced there are “serious problems” in the way forensic science is being used in our courts. Our DNA Database is the biggest in the world, holding details [...]
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