National Crime Agency Debate

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Department: Home Office

National Crime Agency

Lord Jackson of Peterborough Excerpts
Wednesday 8th June 2011

(13 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I have made this point several times before: statements are about questioning the policy of the Government, not that of the Opposition. I call Mr Stewart Jackson.

Lord Jackson of Peterborough Portrait Mr Stewart Jackson (Peterborough) (Con)
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I welcome the Home Secretary’s statement. I am sure that she, like me, would congratulate Cambridgeshire constabulary on the work it is doing to combat people trafficking through initiatives such as Operation Sodium. On a specific point about people trafficking, how does she see the priority for the NCA in respect of the sharing of criminal records data across the European Union, an area that, regrettably, was ignored by the previous Government?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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I thank my hon. Friend for his question and am happy to join him in congratulating Cambridgeshire constabulary on its work and the operations it has undertaken on human trafficking. In relation to all those issues, the National Crime Agency will be looking to operate across international borders as well as across police force borders in the UK. The sharing of information within the European Union, and indeed the sharing of information in other ways, as he knows, has been and is a matter of discussion within the European Union. The NCA will be the key point of contact for both European and wider international co-operation.