Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure consistency in how police forces handle safeguarding disclosures made by asylum seekers relating to alleged criminal incidents outside the UK.

Although police forces are operationally independent, the Home Office is part of a national coordination network with policing which manages the impact of immigration on policing, including identifying and mitigating risks from asylum placement.

There are frameworks and processes in place to facilitate the sharing of sensitive information with stakeholders including the police. The Home Office regularly reviews the sharing of such information to ensure it remains necessary, proportionate and complies with legislation.