Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's involvement in the Children in Custody Golden Hour Information Exchange pilot with the Metropolitan Police.

The Home Department has made no formal assessment of the Children in Custody Golden Hour Information Exchange initiative.

The initiative supports how children are transferred between police custody and local authority accommodation. It operated in three London boroughs for the last two years. The Metropolitan Police are now sharing this practice across the entire London area, with a desire to encourage similar national practice.