Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether (1) the Home Office, and (2) the Metropolitan Police Service, intend to provide position statements to the Mitting Inquiry, setting out (a) their respective responsibilities for undercover policing, (b) their assessment of failings in respect of such policing, and (c) who was responsible for any such failings; and if so, whether they will publish those statements.

The Undercover Policing Inquiry was set up by the then Home Secretary to inquire into and report on undercover police operations conducted by English and Welsh police forces in England and Wales since 1968. Under the Inquiry’s Terms of Reference, this includes identifying and assessing the adequacy of the statutory, policy and judicial regulation of undercover policing and ascertaining the state of awareness of undercover police operations of Her Majesty’s Government. The Home Office is a Core Participant and, in addition to ongoing voluntary disclosure, is providing such assistance as is requested of it by the Inquiry. The Metropolitan Police Service is independent of Government and decisions on their statements and disclosure to the Inquiry are a matter for them. The Inquiry will report on its findings once all evidence has been reviewed.