Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what conversations she has had with representatives from the Metropolitan Police about the Vashi diamonds case.

The Home Office does not have any record of the Home Secretary having any conversations with representatives from the Metropolitan Police about the Vashi diamonds case. Operational decisions on case investigations are matters for operationally independent police forces. It would be inappropriate for the Home Office to intervene or direct police forces on whether individual cases should or should not be investigated.

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