Maria Eagle – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Maria Eagle on 2016-01-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people employed by the Metropolitan Police Service are former employees of News International.

Mike Penning

The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of people employed by the Metropolitan Police Service who were former employees of News International.

Individual police forces in England and Wales are responsible for deciding when and how they run their recruitment and selection processes.

Decisions on whether to recruit individuals are for the chief officer of the police force concerned.