questionText: 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.
answerText: The 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.
heading: Forensic Science: Nationalisation