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<p><del class="ministerial">I welcome the swift action taken by the National Police
Chiefs’ Council and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners’ to manage the administration
of Key Forensic Services (KFS), minimising the impact on the criminal justice system
and protecting the evidence for live cases. With Home Office support, they reached
an agreement with the Administrators to ensure that the business continues to operate
so that evidence KFS holds continues to be properly and professionally managed in
accordance with the standards set by the Forensic Science Regulator.There are no plans
to reopen the Forensic Science Service.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Government
has not undertaken an assessment of the effect of rural crime on residents and businesses
in Barnsley East. The independent Crime Survey for England and Wales continues to
show that, for those crimes covered by the Survey, people in rural areas are less
likely to be the victims of crime than those in urban areas. The 2015 Commercial Victimisation
Survey also showed that 24 per cent of agriculture, forestry and fishing premises
in England and Wales, had experienced at least one incident of crime (excluding online
crime) which represented a statistically significant fall of six percentage points
compared with the 2013 Survey.</ins></p>
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