§ Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Affairs Department if he has asked Europol to assist in the measures to tackle football hooliganism in the EU. [23736]
§ Mr. MacleanNo. Neither the remit of the Europol drugs unit nor the Europol convention extend to football hooliganism. However, the United Kingdom's good practice guidelines that were adopted by the European Union on 19 March emphasised the importance of European police co-operation and contained measures for promoting this.