Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what 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.

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave on 28 January 2019 [203414].

We are working with operational partners on a contingent basis to transition our cooperation with EU Member States to non-EU channels, should that be required in a no deal scenario. The alternative arrangements for the EU ‘tools’ in question would involve making more use of Interpol, Council of Europe Conventions and other forms of cooperation, such as bilateral channels.

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.