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809137

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	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, what recent discussions he has had with the Serious Fraud Office on tackling economic crime.
	tabling member constituency	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
	tabling member printed	Andrew Bowie
	uin	903074
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text The Serious Fraud Office does vital work in tackling some of the most serious instances of economic crime. As the superintending Minister for the SFO, I regularly meet with the Director of the SFO to discuss key issues in relation to economic crime. answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 21/12/2017 11:35:22 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4601 label Biography information for Andrew Bowie

433718

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	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 24 November 2015 to Question 16871, how many full-time equivalent staff worked in the Specialist Fraud Division in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	18485
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The number of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff that have worked in the Specialist Fraud Division in each of the last six years is shown below.</p><br /><p>March 2010 - 142 FTE</p><p>March 2011 - 134 FTE</p><p>March 2012 - 138 FTE</p><p>March 2013 - 258 FTE</p><p>March 2014 - 233 FTE</p><p>March 2015 - 230 FTE</p><br /><p>Note: The figures presented above reflect staff in post on 31 March of each year.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/12/2015 15:37:26 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

433717

	registered interest
	date	02/12/2015
	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 24 November 2015 to Question 16871, what the budget allocated to the Specialist Fraud Division was in each of the last six years.
	tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
	tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
	uin	18484
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2015 answer text <p>The budget allocated to the Specialist Fraud Division in each of the last six years was:</p><br /><p>2009/10 - £7.3m</p><p>2010/11 - £23.4m</p><p>2011/12 - £22.1m</p><p>2012/13 - £26.8m</p><p>2013/14 - £25.6m</p><p>2014/15 - £23.6m</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 07/12/2015 15:35:41 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

486935

	registered interest
	date	24/03/2016
	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 tip-offs were made to the Serious Fraud Office tip-off line in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	32551
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/04/2016 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) launched its dedicated reporting channel on 1 November 2011. The service was intended to encourage reports of serious or complex fraud by whistleblowers and accepted referrals by post, email and telephone. The SFO decided to close the telephone element of the service on 12 June 2012 because a disproportionate amount of staff time was being spent dealing with telephone calls that did not contribute to this aim.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of calls, emails and other referrals through the channel in each year since it was established is shown in the table below. These figures may include multiple reports from single individuals, or multiple referrals about the same matter received from different individuals. Referrals made through the dedicated reporting channel in November and December 2011 were not counted separately from other referrals to the SFO in those months.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total number of reports</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>2,731</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>2,996</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>3,001</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>3,163</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The SFO now offers guidance on its website as to how the public may best report any information it may have about fraud to the most appropriate law enforcement authority, including Action Fraud, which is the UK’s central reporting mechanism for fraud and cyber crime.</p><p>The SFO continues to receive and assess reports from the public sent directly to it via the online reporting tool, by email or post, or referred to it by other law enforcement and regulatory bodies.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 11/04/2016 10:41:39 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

512401

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2016
	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 11 April 2016 to Question 32551, how many reports from the dedicated reporting channel were passed on to other investigatory bodies and prosecuting authorities.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	33835
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is an intelligence led agency and follows the National Intelligence Model (NIM) when sharing information with law enforcement partners.</p><p>Every report made to the SFO is assessed by a member of its Intelligence Unit in conjunction with other information available. The SFO passes information on to others when it has appropriate intelligence to share. This could be information from a single report, or a collated intelligence package.</p><p>The vast majority of reports made to the SFO are not matters which it can investigate, and are more appropriate for the police or other agencies. Action Fraud is the UK's national fraud reporting centre. Individuals are asked to report matters directly to them so that Action Fraud can make best use of their information. They will also be given a crime report number for future reference.</p><p>The table below shows the minimum number of intelligence referrals made by the SFO to other agencies which are directly referable to reports made through the dedicated reporting channel(1) since these statistics have been recorded. It also shows the number of SFO investigations opened since 2012 where the initial report to the SFO came through its online reporting system.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of referrals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFO investigations that originated through online reporting system</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>Not recorded</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Not recorded</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1. The SFO does not record statistical information about all types of referrals that it makes to other agencies that are directly referable to reports made through the dedicated reporting channel, so the total number may be higher.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 33834 33836 question first answered 19/04/2016 17:02:50 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

512402

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2016
	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 11 April 2016 to Question 32551, how many reports from the dedicated reporting channel were deemed to have enough information to warrant opening an investigation in each year since 2012.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	33836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is an intelligence led agency and follows the National Intelligence Model (NIM) when sharing information with law enforcement partners.</p><p>Every report made to the SFO is assessed by a member of its Intelligence Unit in conjunction with other information available. The SFO passes information on to others when it has appropriate intelligence to share. This could be information from a single report, or a collated intelligence package.</p><p>The vast majority of reports made to the SFO are not matters which it can investigate, and are more appropriate for the police or other agencies. Action Fraud is the UK's national fraud reporting centre. Individuals are asked to report matters directly to them so that Action Fraud can make best use of their information. They will also be given a crime report number for future reference.</p><p>The table below shows the minimum number of intelligence referrals made by the SFO to other agencies which are directly referable to reports made through the dedicated reporting channel(1) since these statistics have been recorded. It also shows the number of SFO investigations opened since 2012 where the initial report to the SFO came through its online reporting system.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of referrals</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>SFO investigations that originated through online reporting system</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>Not recorded</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>Not recorded</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>144</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>154</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>1. The SFO does not record statistical information about all types of referrals that it makes to other agencies that are directly referable to reports made through the dedicated reporting channel, so the total number may be higher.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright grouped question UIN 33834 33835 question first answered 19/04/2016 17:02:50 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

720202

	registered interest
	date	13/04/2017
	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 tip-offs were made to the Serious Fraud Office tip-off line in 2016; how many reports from that tip-off line were passed on to other investigatory bodies and prosecuting authorities; and how many such reports were deemed to contain enough information to justify opening an investigation.
	tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
	tabling member printed	Karl Turner
	uin	70979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2017 answer text <p>The SFO does not have a dedicated telephone tip-off line. Allegations of criminality are referred to the SFO by a variety of sources, including corporate self-referrals, other law enforcement or regulatory agencies both within the UK and overseas, non-governmental agencies as well as by members of the public. The largest number of referrals are submitted through the secure online reporting tool accessed by the SFO website. The online reporting tool was updated in February 2016. This has led to a decrease in overall direct referrals as users are provided with more information to report allegations that fall outside the SFO's statutory remit to a more appropriate agency. Everyone making referrals to the SFO via the website are routinely advised to report their allegations directly to Action Fraud, the UK's national fraud reporting centre.</p><p>In 2016 there were a recorded 1552 reports made through the SFO reporting tool. The SFO central records indicate that 80 of these reports were referred by the SFO to other investigative bodies for consideration although this may not capture every instance of a referral being made to another agency by the SFO.</p><p>The number of SFO investigations opened during 2016 which originated through the online reporting system during this period was 4.</p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 20/04/2017 10:49:35 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
	tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

167913

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2014
	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	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many prosecutions for phone scamming offences there were in each year from 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Kennedy of Southwark
	uin	HL3437
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service maintains a central record of the number of prosecutions it conducts for fraud and/or forgery offences; however, it is not possible to identify which of these offences were conducted, in whole or in part, through the telephone. To obtain this information would require a manual file examination which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Wallace of Tankerness question first answered 16/12/2014 14:45:52 answering member 630 label Biography information for Lord Wallace of Tankerness
	tabling member	4153 label Biography information for Lord Kennedy of Southwark

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

169926

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2014
	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, what estimate he has made of the cost of (a) fraud and (b) financial error in (i) the Law Officers' Departments, (ii) its executive agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester Central
	tabling member printed	Lucy Powell
	uin	218497
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/12/2014 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer to parliamentary question 217821 given to her by the Minister for the Cabinet Office on the 15<sup>th</sup> December 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Mr Robert Buckland question first answered 17/12/2014 13:06:56 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
	tabling member	4263 label Biography information for Lucy Powell