Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to what extent have police officers been trained on the subject of transnational repression.

Police and intelligence services have mature mechanisms in place to assess, detect and disrupt state linked threats, including transnational repression, using a wide range of tactics to protect those at risk.

Training has been rolled out across all UK police forces, including upskilling of 999 call handlers, to improve frontline identification of state-directed crimes.

The police have implemented new processes which ensure they flag and record crime reports that may involve foreign interference; these are triaged locally and escalated to Counter Terrorism Policing specialists where appropriate, strengthening national visibility of reporting trends and methodologies.