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The present database in England and Wales holds details of 4 million people who are guilty or cleared of a crime.

Lord Justice Sedley said this was indefensible and biased against ethnic minorities, and it would be fairer to include everyone, guilty or innocent.

Ministers said DNA helped tackle crime, but there were no plans for a voluntary national or compulsory UK database.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown said to expand the database would create "huge logistical and bureaucratic issues" and civil liberty concerns. The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, he said. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair also called for a national dna database.

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