Digital, Data and Technology
Enterprise Services
Lunar House
Croydon
CR9 2BY
www.homeoffice.gov.uk
Dominic Headley
Via email to:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
20 October 2022
Dear Dominic Headley,
Freedom of Information Act 2000 Request (Our Reference 72108)
Thank you for your email of 03 October 2022 in which you ask for information on the
number of Nominal (Criminal) records currently held on the PNC. A full copy of your
request information can be found in
Annex A. Your request has been handled as a request
for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
I can confirm that the number of Nominal records held on the PNC for individuals with a
criminal element against their names, as at the latest quarterly report (October 2022) are
12,282,131.
If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal review
of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to
xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx, quoting reference
72108. If you ask for an internal review,
it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.
As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request would
be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you
were to remain dissatisfied after an internal review, you would have a right of complaint to
the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the FOIA.
A link to the Home Office Information Rights Privacy Notice can be found in the following
link. This explains how we process your personal information:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/information-rights-privacy-notice.
Yours sincerely,
Home Office Enterprise Services
Email xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Annex A
From: Dominic Headley xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Sent: 03 October 2022 10:36
To: FOI Requests xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Figures for nominal records on Police National
Computer - 2022
Dear Home Office,
I would be grateful if you could provide up-to-date figures on how many Nominal (Criminal)
Records are currently on the PNC.
I would like you to provide figures that are accurate up to the date of replying to this
request and mindful that the last figures you provided to me in September 2020 and
December 2021 were approx 11.9 million.
I am aware that over 1 million people are convicted each year so I would expect these
figures to have increased significantly – or you to provide the rationale as to why the
figures have not increased.
Yours faithfully,
Dominic Headley