Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the prospects of the UK meeting the conditions for exchanging personal data under the EU Prüm framework for automated data exchange by 1 October 2021; and what plans she has for future UK participation in personal data exchange with EU authorities.

Under the terms of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), within nine months of entry into force of the Agreement the UK’s DNA and fingerprint capabilities under the Prüm framework will be evaluated.

The UK continues to exchange biometric data with connected EU Member States and judges it has met the requisite conditions for exchanging personal data. These are set out in Title II of Part 3 of the TCA.

More broadly, the UK continues to exchange personal data with our European partners for the purposes of law enforcement, including under the terms of the TCA, ensuring such data is appropriately protected.