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1403662

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date	17/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Drugs: Children
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will make it his policy to introduce legislation to make the sale of banned narcotics to people under the age of 16 a specific criminal offence.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	105790
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/01/2022 answer text <p>We have no plans to introduce legislation to make the sale of drugs to people under the age of 16 a specific criminal offence. Under s.4(1) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (MDA 1971), it is unlawful to “supply or offer to supply a controlled drug to another”. This is expanded upon by s.4(3), which makes it an offence: (a) to supply or offer to supply a controlled drug to another in contravention of s.4(1); or (b) to be concerned in the supplying of such a drug to another in contravention of s.4(1); or (c) to be concerned in the making to another an offer to supply such a drug (in contravention of s.4(1)).</p><p>These provisions do not differentiate between different classes of person based on age or any other characteristic. The offence is made out where a person supplies a controlled drug to another person or offers to supply a controlled drug to another person. It would therefore be an offence under s.4 MDA 1971 to supply a controlled drug to a person under the age of 16 (subject of course to any applicable exemptions and licences held).</p><p>Additionally, section 4A of the MDA 1971 sets out the circumstances that a court must treat as aggravating factors in respect of the offence of supply of a controlled drug under s.4. These circumstances are:</p><p>(a) When a person supplies a controlled drug on or in the vicinity of school premises when those premises are being used by persons under 18 (and within one hour of any such time); and</p><p>(b) When a person causes or permits a person under 18 to deliver a controlled drug to a third person or to deliver a drug related consideration to himself or a third person in connection with the offence of supply of a controlled drug.</p><p>The provisions of s.4A are concerned with where the supply took place (e.g. in the vicinity of a school), when the supply took place (e.g. during school hours) and whether a child courier was used to effect the supply.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 24/01/2022 16:14:11 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1363046

registered interest
date	25/10/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will publish the (a) budget, (b) headcount, and (c) the number of accreditations issued to financial investigators for each year in the last five years by the National Crime Agency's Proceeds of Crime Centre.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	62781
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2021 answer text <p><strong>(a) </strong><strong>budget</strong></p><p>The total spending of the Proceeds of Crime Centre (POCC) over in each of the last five financial years is in the table below. This covers a range of costs, for example pay, overtime, travel, training delivery costs.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22 (year to date[1])</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£</p></td><td><p>982,365</p></td><td><p>962,650</p></td><td><p>874,568</p></td><td><p>937,167</p></td><td><p>501,138</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>(b) </strong><strong>headcount</strong></p><p> </p><p>The headcount of the POCC now, and at the end of the preceding four financial years, and the year to date is in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>March 2018</p></td><td><p>March 2019</p></td><td><p>March 2020</p></td><td><p>March 2021</p></td><td><p>October 2021</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Staff in post</p></td><td><p>14</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>16</p></td><td><p>18</p></td><td><p>20</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>(c) </strong><strong>number of accreditations</strong></p><p> </p><p>The number of new accreditations given to Financial Investigators (FIs) by the POCC is set out below. The POCC also provides accredited FIs with Continuous Professional Development assurance and advice. In addition the POCC does a variety of work beyond new accreditations for FIs, including accreditations to non-FIs, providing non-accredited training, and acting as expert advisers across Law Enforcement.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Financial year</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td><td><p>2018/19</p></td><td><p>2019/20</p></td><td><p>2020/21</p></td><td><p>2021/22 (year to date[2])</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Financial Investigators accredited</p></td><td><p>201</p></td><td><p>241</p></td><td><p>151</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>140</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Confiscators* accredited</p></td><td><p>143</p></td><td><p>118</p></td><td><p>83</p></td><td><p>51</p></td><td><p>47</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>*Confiscator accreditation can be gained by experienced FIs in order to hold additional powers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] As of the 26<sup>th</sup> October 2021</p><p>[2] As of 28<sup>th</sup> October 2021</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 02/11/2021 17:56:42 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 29703 answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1348305

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full-time equivalent staff have been employed by the National Crime Agency to tackle economic crime in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	35777
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>In terms of the operational response, the Agency has a wide range of capabilities and functions that operate across different threat areas including economic crime. We are unable to provide a figure for the number of full-time equivalent staff who have been employed by the National Crime Agency (NCA) to tackle economic crime for the past three years as many units contribute to the efforts in different and varying amounts.</p><p>However, we are able to report on the number of staff within the Economic Crime Command which includes the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) and the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU).</p><p>The following table contains the approximate number of full time equivalent (FTE) staff for the Economic Crime Command, UK Financial Intelligence Unit and NECC since 2018. This is therefore a partial figure that does not reflect, for example, officers in Intelligence and Investigations Commands who conduct work in this threat area.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>ECC (NECC and UKFIU) FTE (approximate)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019 FY end</p></td><td><p>240</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020 FY end</p></td><td><p>300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021 FY end</p></td><td><p>350</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>An important element of tackling economic crime and illicit finance is by denying criminals the benefit of their crimes. This disrupts organised crime groups and illicit finance flows and on this we have achieved some significant successes. The NCA’s success in denying criminal assets over the same three years totals £646.5m, which could have derived from any serious and organised crime threat. This demonstrates one element of our impact across all illicit finance for which we have readily available data.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/07/2021 15:16:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1348306

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	National Crime Agency: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much and what proportion of the National Crime Agency's budget has been spent on tackling economic crime in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	35778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>The National Crime Agency (NCA)’s overall budget is distributed across the agency according to need and operational priority. As serious and organised crime threats change, the agency retains the ability to flex its resources to react. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of budget allocated to tackling economic crime as there are a number of agency wide capabilities and functions that all commands have access to. We are, however, able to provide the total expenditure by the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) which provides a partial figure of expenditure for our overall response to tackling economic crime.</p><p>The NCA Annual Report and Accounts provide the following Gross Expenditure over the past three years:</p><p>2018/19 - Gross expenditure for the Prosperity Command - £22.0m (Note the NECC was formally launched on 31 October 2018, before which the NCA’s Prosperity Command fulfilled some of the same functions. In the 2019/20 Annual Report, an apportionment of £6.7m in 2018/19 was made for the NECC.)</p><p>2019/20 - Gross expenditure for the NECC - £30.0m</p><p>2020/21 – Gross expenditure for the NECC - £35.5m</p><p>An important element of tackling economic crime and illicit finance is by denying criminals the benefit of their crimes. This disrupts organised crime groups and illicit finance flows and on this we have achieved some significant successes. The NCA’s success in denying criminal assets over the same three years totals £646.5m, which could have derived from any serious and organised crime threat. This demonstrates one element of our impact across all illicit finance for which we have readily available data.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/07/2021 15:18:20 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake

1348307

registered interest
date	19/07/2021
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Organised Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate Sir Craig Mackey made of how much additional funding would be required to enable UK law enforcement to successfully tackle serious and organised crime.
tabling member constituency	Thirsk and Malton
tabling member printed	Kevin Hollinrake
uin	35779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/07/2021 answer text <p>My department published the key findings of Sir Craig Mackey’s Review on 16 March 2021. The recent Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy set out the Government’s priorities for tackling serious and organised crime in response to Sir Craig’s Review, including strengthening the NCA and increasing regional and local policing capacity. We will assess future funding needed as part of the next spending review.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 27/07/2021 14:58:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4474 label Biography information for Kevin Hollinrake