Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when specific alternative arrangements will replace (a) the Schengen Information System II, (b) the European Arrest Warrant, (c) the European Criminal Records Information System, (d) intelligence sharing through Europol, (e) Eurojust and (f) European Investigation Orders in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

The Government’s position remains that the agreement reached with the EU, which includes ambitious internal security arrangements, is in the UK’s best interests.

In a “no deal” scenario, however, we are working with operational partners to put in place alternative contingency arrangements for each of the EU law enforcement ‘tools’ listed, including making more use of Interpol and Council of Europe arrangements. In the event of no deal, whilst these would not be like-for-like replacements, we are preparing for these alternative mechanisms to operate from exit day.