Written Question·Home Office·UIN 30834
Forensic Science: Nationalisation
Tabled: 11 February 2025
Answered: 19 February 2025
Question
Olly Glover
Liberal Democrat — Didcot and Wantage
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of re-nationalisation of forensic services in England and Wales.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe forensics market plays an important role in the provision of services in England and Wales and we have no plans to nationalise it, but we are looking at whether a new National Centre of Policing might include national capabilities such as forensics.