Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the NCA is conducting a review of its frameworks and guidelines on settlements with foreign governments.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) regularly reviews its engagement with international operational law enforcement partners. As the NCA Annual Plan published in August 2023 sets out:
“Effective working overseas will require strong international partnerships which the Agency will focus on strengthening in 2023-24.
This will include: prioritising key countries and regions to better understand and act where the Agency will have the biggest impact in protecting the UK; strengthening existing international relationships through the Agency’s extensive International Liaison Officer network and multilateral relationships; embedding the Joint International Crime Centre, which will take a multi-agency approach to providing territorial policing access to international partners, intelligence; and the NCA’s specialist international capabilities.”