Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the guidance by her Department entitled Overseas Business Risk: China, published on 11 March 2022, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the London Policing College's partnership with Hunan Police Academy on unintentionally facilitating or being otherwise complicit in human rights violations in Xinjiang.

In 2019, the British Council awarded funding to the London Policing College (LPC) as part of a regional programme to improve international teaching standards in police education in target countries. This included efforts to reduce human rights violations. The London Policing College is an external, private company.

The British Council have confirmed that they have never funded any activities involving Xinjiang security bodies and LPC have confirmed that no Xinjiang security bodies were involved in the programme. LPC have never engaged with institutions of any nature from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and they have now ceased all programme partnerships with China.