Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has received information obtained by the US Administration by means of provisions within the USA PATRIOT Act of 2011; and if she will make a statement.

The UK and US exchange information regularly for a range of purposes including combating terrorism, serious organised crime and other offences.

We do this through various mechanisms, including direct police-to-police and intelligence-to-intelligence cooperation and through instruments such as the UK-US treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. These exchanges benefit both countries’ law enforcement operations.