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Committee reports

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  Human Genetics Commission: Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? Balancing individual rights and the public interest in the governance and use of the National DNA Database (24th November 2009)
  

• Home Affairs Committee: The Macpherson report - ten years on (22nd July 2009)
  

• House of Lords Constitution Committee: Policing and Crime Bill (2nd July 2009)
  

  States that: "It is in our view wholly unacceptable that the important matter of retention of samples is to be dealt with by delegated legislation".

• House of Lords Constitution Committee: Analysis of the Government's response to surveillance, citizens and the state (June 2009)
  

• Lords' Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee: Policing and Crime Bill (12th June 2009)
  

  States that "the Committee considers that provision about this important and complex subject should be in primary legislation, giving the usual opportunity for detailed scrutiny by Parliament".

• Government Response to Constitution Committee's surveillance report (May 2009)
  

• Joint Committee on Human Rights: Legislative Scrutiny: Policing and Crime Bill (31st March 2009)
  

  The Committee is "alarmed that the substance of these proposals will not be contained in primary legislation, subject to the usual scrutiny by both Houses".

• House of Lords Constitution Committee Report: Surveillance: Citizens and the State (6th February 2009)
  

• House of Lords Constitution Committee: Evidence to Surveillance Inquiry
  

• Home Affairs Committee: A surveillance society? (8th June 2008)
  

• Home Affairs Committee: Young black people and the criminal justice system (15th June 2007)
  

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