HC Deb 15 April 1999 vol 329 c317W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer to the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Maclean) of 18 March 1999,Official Report, columns 721–22, on Europol, if he will provide a breakdown by category of the types of request submitted by the United Kingdom for information from Europol.[80456]

Kate Hoey

There was a total of 394 requests made by United Kingdom law enforcement agencies during 1998 of which 82.5 per cent. were drug related; 5.6 per cent. were linked to immigration; 8.1 per cent. covered money laundering activities; 3 per cent. were related to trafficking in stolen vehicles and 0.8 per cent. concerned trafficking in human beings.