This Library Note provides background reading for the debate on the UK’s record on legislation regarding bribery, tax avoidance, corruption and money laundering.
Crime and Security Bill (HL Bill 45 of 2009–10)
The Crime and Security Bill is wide-ranging. It contains
provisions to reduce the reporting requirements on the police
when they stop and search individuals; to set out a statutory
framework for the retention and destruction of biometric
material, including DNA data; to provide the police with the
power to issue “go” notices to alleged perpetrators of domestic violence; to extend injunctions for gang-related violence to 14-17 year-olds; to require courts to make parenting orders when a young person breaches an ASBO; to introduce a licensing scheme for wheel-clamping businesses; to create a new criminal offence of possessing a mobile phone in prison; to create a new offence of failing to take reasonable precautions to prevent a person under 18 from having unauthorised access to an air weapon; to compensate the victims of overseas terrorism; to enable licensing authorities to restrict the sale of alcohol between 3am and 6am; and to give the police new powers to search a person subject to a control order. The Bill has completed its passage through the House of Commons and is due for a second reading debate in the House of Lords on 29th March 2010.
This House of Lords Library Note focuses on the debates on
the retention and destruction of DNA data on the National DNA
Database. It also gives brief details of the other parts of the Bill that were discussed at report stage in the Commons.