Member

On 6 February last year, the then Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, held a summit of policing leaders, the National Crime Agency, the Mayor of London and leading tech companies to drive new action to tackle mobile phone thefts. She urged the companies—including Apple, Google and Samsung—and law enforcement to join forces to build on existing anti-theft security measures and help design out and disincentivise phone theft by making phones worthless to criminals. All in attendance agreed to greater collaboration between police and tech by significantly boosting intelligence sharing, on both sides, and to reconvene in three months. I understand that they have not reconvened in the 11 months since. At the event, Samsung, Apple, and Google all committed to being helpful. The question I ask the Minister today is, why have they not reconvened and why are they are not doing what the Met has asked?