Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what preparations her Department is making for the coordination of efforts to tackle weapons trafficking with EU member states after the UK leaves the EU.

The UK will in due course be leaving the EU but the importance of law enforcement co-operation with our EU and global allies has not changed.

We are exploring options for cooperation arrangements once the UK has left the EU. We will do what is necessary to keep people safe, but it would be wrong to set out unilateral positions on specific measures in advance of negotiations

The threat from firearms trafficking is transnational and requires a transnational response. The UK Government has been working with European partners to tackle the threat from illegally trafficked firearms and to share our expertise, and we will continue to do so.