Bob Neill, chairman of the justice committee, said ministers should spell out arrangements for data exchangeIncreased delay and expense will blight the UK’s already financially stretched criminal justice system when the country leaves the EU even under the prime minister’s Brexit compromise deal, MPs said yesterday. Britain would suffer from lost access to the European arrest warrant, the EU’s criminal records information system and the Schengen information system, the chairman of the Commons justice committee said. In a letter to the Ministry of Justice, Bob Neill, who is also a barrister, demanded that officials publish an assessment of the UK’s withdrawal from those arrangements. Mr Neill told Lucy Frazer, QC, the justice minister, that the MoJ should spell out post-Brexit arrangements for data exchange with the EU regarding wanted or missing persons and objects as well as for the cross-border…

Source: The Times November 29, 2018 22:30 UTC