The Home Secretary today called for a change to police guidance so that officers give more information about the immigration status of suspected offenders.
Yvette Cooper said the Government wants to see the public provided with more details about the backgrounds of those charged with criminal offences.
She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that national guidance issued to police forces across the country needed to be altered.
It comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called for the police to be as 'transparent as possible' about the ethnicity of suspected sex offenders.
Sir Keir was forced to respond after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage demanded that police disclose the backgrounds of those charged with rape and sexual assault.
