Parliamentary Questions
Posted by News Editor
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

On 21st November 2005 Claire Curtis-Thomas (Crosby, Lab) asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what upgrades are being made to the hardware and software elements of the Criminal Cases Review Commission's IT system.

Fiona Mactaggart (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office) replied

The Commission is currently engaged in a project to implement an electronic records management system. This will enable it to discharge its duties under the Public Records Act 1958, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The Office of Criminal Justice Reform has also recently agreed additional funding to maintain and approve the Criminal Cases Review Commission's (CCRC) data mining functionality. This is a retrieval system which enables the CCRC caseworkers to use experience gained in similar cases to reduce the time it takes to deal with new cases.

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