Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the London Policing College's partnerships in China were subject to (a) authorisation by her Department, (b) an international police assistance brief approval process and (c) the consideration of overseas security and justice assistance assessments.

The London Policing College (LPC) is an independent organisation with no formal relationship to the Home Office. The Home Office has no commercial relationship with the LPC.

As the LPC is an independent organisation, their work with China was not in scope for authorisation from the Home Office. Authorisation is only provided to serving officers and police staff who provide non-operational policing assistance and support to international partners in line with the OSJA assessment process.