Question follow-through · 27637
Gangs: Databases
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of identifying an independent body to safeguard data relating to the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Violence Matrix.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 6 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of identifying an independent body to safeguard data relating to the Metropolitan Police’s Gangs Violence Matrix.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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6 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Gangs Violence Matrix (GVM) was an intelligence tool used by the Metropolitan Police to identify and risk-assess individuals involved with gangs across London.The police are operationally independent of the government, and the GVM was devised and oper...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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