Policing and Crime Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:30 pm on 27 January 2009.

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Photo of James Brokenshire James Brokenshire Shadow Minister (Home Affairs) 5:30, 27 January 2009

I have some quick questions to round off with. When I was questioning earlier, there was the implication that the costs of compliance with the enhanced Schengen arrangements, the requests being received and the officer-time required to follow through on requests from other European jurisdictions were growing and growing. Can you indicate the cost in manpower of complying with the system as it is now, when we have this exponential growth?