Baroness Kennedy of Cradley – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Kennedy of Cradley on 2015-12-08.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what effect the UK’s opting out of the Prüm Decision has had on solving crime.

Lord Bates

The Government opted out of the Prüm decisions in December 2014 because we were not then in a position to implement it and could have been subject to substantial fines from the European Court of Justice for our non-implementation had we stayed in. On 26 November the Government issued Command Paper 9149 which recommended rejoining Prüm and set out a clear timeframe for implementation.