Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions her Department has used the EU Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme since its creation.

The Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP) allows UK law enforcement access, in specific circumstances, to information on international financial transactions on the SWIFT messaging network. The Joint Report from the EU Commission and US Treasury Department highlighted the valuable role data from TFTP had played in supporting counter-terrorism investigations. Due to reasons of national security it is not in the public interest to disclose the specific details of the UK’s use of the TFTP.

Joint Report from the European Union Commission and the U.S. Treasury Department regarding the value of TFTP Provided Data – 27 November 2013