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Table 2: Female
Ethnic appearance	Age range	Number of subject profiles	Number of individuals using 13.3 per cent. estimated replication rate
Unknown	Under 14	5,333	4,624
	15 to 24	22,839	19,801
	25 to 34	13,389	11,608
	35 to 44	10,491	9,096
	45 to 54	4,971	4,310
	55 to 64	1,706	1,479
	Over 65	519	450
	Unknown age on load	53	46
Total unknown	—	59,301	51,414
Black	Under 14	7,976	6,915
	15 to 24	31,087	26,952
	25 to 34	18,897	16,384
	35 to 44	11,904	10,321
	45 to 54	3,063	2,656
	55 to 64	492	427
	Over 65	133	115
	Unknown age on load	294	255
Total black	—	73,846	64,024
Middle Eastern	Under 14	144	125
	15 to 24	960	832
	25 to 34	844	732
	35 to 44	602	522
	45 to 54	288	250
	55 to 64	84	73
	Over 65	29	25
	Unknown age on load	7	6
Total Middle Eastern	—	2,958	2,565
Asian	Under 14	2,166	1,878
	15 to 24	13,579	11,773
	25 to 34	8,751	7,587
	35 to 44	4,519	3,918
	45 to 54	1,973	1,711
	55 to 64	588	510
	Over 65	128	111
	Unknown age on load	66	57
Total Asian	—	31,770	27,545
White South European	Under 14	1,815	1,574
	15 to 24	6,741	5,844
	25 to 34	4,241,	3,677
	35 to 44	2,336	2,025
	45 to 54	808	701
	55 to 64	195	169
	Over 65	46	40
	Unknown age on load	76	66
Total white South European	—	16,258	14,096
Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian	Under 14	267	231
	15 to 24	2,927	2,538
	25 to 34	2,609	2,262
	35 to 44	1,587	1,376
	45 to 54	678	588
	55 to 64	165	143
	Over 65	31	27
	Unknown age on load	14	12
Total Chinese, Japanese or SE Asian	—	8,278	7,177
White North European	Under 14	99,852	86,572
	15 to 24	321,176	278,460,
	25 to 34	166,925	144,724
	35 to 44	134,767	116,843
	45 to 54	58,131	50,400
	55 to 64	19,347	16,774
	Over 65	4,976	4,314
	Unknown age on load	2,807	2,434
Total white North European	—	807,981	700,520
Total female	—	1,000,392	867,340

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to the answer of 18 April 2006, Official Report, column 290W, on DNA database, what the projected growth is for the number of individuals with a DNA profile on the national DNA database over the next five years. [212354]

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Meg Hillier: Updated figures for the projected growth in the number of individuals on the National DNA Database are not yet available.

Work on revising the figures is in progress. It will also take account of the judgment in the S and Marper case before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the proportionality of retaining biometric data for those charged but not convicted of an offence. The ECtHR judgment is expected later this year. Revised projections should be available in early 2009.

John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of people with DNA profiles held on the national DNA database living in (a) Leeds West constituency, (b) Leeds Metropolitan District and (c) the UK are of (i) Asian, (ii) Black and (iii) Eastern European ethnic origin and are under 18 years old. [213352]

Meg Hillier: Information held on the National DNA Database (NDNAD) is available on the basis of the police force which added the DNA profile, not the residence of the person sampled. Information is, therefore, not available on the number of residents of Leeds, West constituency or Leeds metropolitan district who have had a DNA profile added to the NDNAD, but is available on the number of profiles loaded by West Yorkshire police. The people from whom these profiles were taken may not be resident in the area where they were sampled.

The NDNAD holds records on the ethnic appearance of persons who have DNA taken, based on the judgment of the police officer completing the record about which of six broad ethnic categories the person belongs to. These categories are white—north European; white—south European; middle eastern; Asian; black; and Chinese, Japanese or other south east Asian. There is no separate category for eastern Europeans. If the police officer does not make an entry for ethnic appearance, this is recorded as 'unknown'.

It is not, therefore, possible to provide the information requested. However, it is possible to provide information on the number of profiles added to the NDNAD by West Yorkshire police, and by all English and Welsh police forces, broken down by age and the ethnic appearance categories used. The age shown is the person's current age, not the age they were when the DNA sample was taken. This is shown in the following table.

The number of profiles held on the NDNAD is not the same as the number of individuals. As it is possible for a profile to be loaded onto the NDNAD on more than one occasion, some profiles held on the NDNAD are replicates. This can occur, for example, if the person provided different names, or different versions of their name, on separate arrests, or because profiles are upgraded.

At present, the national replication rate is 13.3 per cent., that is, the number of people whose details are loaded is 13.3 per cent. fewer than the number of profiles. However, this rate may vary between police forces, so figures for the number of individuals whose profiles have been loaded are not given for specific forces.

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