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Dear Mr Anderson

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

I refer to your email of 03 October 2009 received by the Scotland Office today in which you requested the following;

I wish to know the current procedure's in place for information on the Police National Computer and any other criminal conviction related information held by Scottish Police forces to be shared with the United States authorities.

I also wish to know if the United States authorities ie; US Embassy in London or the US Homeland Security have access to criminal conviction information of individuals who travel to the US.

I would like to know how the US authorities have the ability to check whether an individual from the UK has a criminal record. This presumably relates to any agreements that are in place between the US authorities and the Home Office for the sharing of such information.

Requests under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 should be directed to the Scottish Government, the contact address is as follows;

Scottish Government

Freedom of Information Unit

Area G-North

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

I hope you find this useful.

Yours sincerely

Kevin Jack

Scotland Office

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