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164111

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Corruption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many Suspicious Activity Report intelligence packs relating to corruption in which countries the Serious Fraud Office has received from the National Crime Agency in the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	215599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency does not routinely disseminate Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to the Serious Fraud Office.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The SFO has direct access to the SARs database through a secure online portal which it regularly searches to assist any investigation into financial crime including corruption.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 27/11/2014 11:28:11 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

164112

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Corruption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many requests the Serious Fraud Office has received for mutual legal assistance in relation to corruption from which countries in each of the last four years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	215609
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) does not receive Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) requests directly, but in appropriate cases the United Kingdom Central Authority (UKCA) will refer an MLA request to the SFO for execution. the table below details the number of requests for mutual legal assistance in relation to corruption have been referred to the SFO by the UKCA in each of the past 4 years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>2010 10</p><p> </p><p>2011 9</p><p> </p><p>2012 11</p><p> </p><p>2013 14</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A breakdown by country is not provided as it may lead to the identification of an individual MLA request and it is Government policy neither to confirm nor deny the existence, content or status of any individual MLA request.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 27/11/2014 11:37:23 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

164113

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions the prosecuting authorities have offered a company the opportunity to enter into Deferred Prosecution Agreement negotiations in the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	215607
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs) became available to prosecutors on 24 February 2014. The DPA Code of Practice sets out the procedure to be followed. Letters of invitation to a company to enter into DPA negotiations are confidential.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 27/11/2014 11:35:36 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

164114

	registered interest
	date	21/11/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Corruption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many self-reports from companies relating to bribery the Serious Fraud Office has received since its submission to the OECD Phase 3 Report on Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, published in March 2012; and how many of those reports relate to (a) current and (b) closed investigations.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	215614
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Right Honourable gentleman to my answer of 4 September, Official Report, Column 290W.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 27/11/2014 11:34:23 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

179256

	registered interest
	date	11/02/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Fraud: Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether he has issued a direction under 4(b) of the Protocol Between the Attorney General and the Prosecuting Departments to the Serious Fraud Office on a case under investigation by that office in the last four months; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	224228
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2015 answer text <p>It would not be appropriate to give a running commentary on SFO investigations. I am aware of the provisions within paragraph 4(b)4 of the Protocol, which state that if any such direction were to be made then I would make a report to Parliament, so far as was compatible with national security.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 23/02/2015 12:46:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

179514

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, pursuant to the Answer of 3 September 2014 to Question 207315, whether a Shawcross exercise has been conducted in relation to Serious Fraud Office investigations since the date of that Answer; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	224413
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2015 answer text <p>It is my department’s usual policy not to comment on any live investigation. In the period referred to there have been no Shawcross exercises in respect of any concluded SFO cases.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 24/02/2015 17:02:26 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright previous answer version 45780 answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

225080

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2015
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether he has sought ministerial representations in a public interest consultation exercise under section 4(e) of the Protocol between the Attorney General and the Prosecuting Bodies with regard to any cases currently being dealt with by one of the prosecuting bodies.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	226430
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p>It is my department’s usual policy not to comment on any live cases.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 09/03/2015 16:48:32 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

77828

	registered interest
	date	15/07/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Prosecutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many applications for a preliminary hearing for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (a) the Director of Public Prosecutions and (b) the Serious Fraud Office have made since 24 February 2014.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	205838
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>No such applications have been made so far.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 22/07/2014 12:11:22 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

89412

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many Shawcross exercises have been conducted in relation to the SFO's investigations in the last two years.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	207315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>None.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 03/09/2014 13:39:57 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem

89416

	registered interest
	date	29/08/2014
	answering body	Attorney General
	answering dept id	88
	answering dept short name	Attorney General
	answering dept sort name	Attorney General
	hansard heading	Corruption
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Attorney General, how many self-reports from companies have been made under (a) the Bribery Act 2010 and (b) other corruption legislation in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	North East Fife
	tabling member printed	Sir Menzies Campbell
	uin	207305
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2014 answer text <p> </p><p>Self-reports are not necessarily made relating to specific legislation, and it is for the prosecutor to determine the relevant legislation in each case when considering charging.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Further, given the small number and seriousness of cases investigated by SFO, it would not be desirable to provide a breakdown of this data because of the need to protect individuals and the risk of prejudicing investigations.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 04/09/2014 12:18:07 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	627 label Biography information for Lord Campbell of Pittenweem