Amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill: Clause 24 – Information relating to victims (Third-party materials)
Draft TPM amendments v3 15 January 2024 (DOCX, 25.5 KB)
This amendment seeks to mirror the wording of the clauses dealing with victim information requests with that of the clauses dealing with digital data requests in the PCSC Act 2022.
This document was updated on 16 January 2024.
Clauses 24-26 of the Victims and Prisoners Bill will amend the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act to include a regime for making victim information requests in respect of information about them held by third parties (known as third-party material/TPM). However, as drafted, these clauses lack the protections for victims that apply to requests for digital data within the PCSC Act, such as the provision that refusing to co-operate with requests will not automatically end investigations.
This clause should be amended so that the wording mirrors that of the clauses dealing with digital material in the PCSC Act, providing consistency and parity between the frameworks for digital data requests and victim information requests, and granting victims who are subject to these requests the same additional safeguards that are in place for digital data requests.