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registered interest false more like this
date less than 2015-09-09more like thismore than 2015-09-09
answering body
Ministry of Justice more like this
answering dept id 54 more like this
answering dept short name Justice more like this
answering dept sort name Justice more like this
hansard heading Corruption more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what progress he has made on Action 36 of the UK Anti-Corruption Plan; and when he expects corporate criminal liability to be introduced. more like this
tabling member constituency Gower remove filter
tabling member printed
Byron Davies more like this
uin 9735 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer remove maximum value filtermore like thismore than 2015-09-28
answer text <p>The UK has corporate criminal liability and commercial organisations can be, and are, prosecuted for wrongdoing. The UK Anti-Corruption Plan tasked the Ministry of Justice to examine the case for a new offence of a corporate failure to prevent economic crime and the rules on establishing corporate criminal liability more widely. Ministers have decided not to carry out further work at this stage as there have been no prosecutions under the model Bribery Act offence and there is little evidence of corporate economic wrongdoing going unpunished.</p> more like this
answering member constituency South West Bedfordshire more like this
answering member printed Andrew Selous more like this
question first answered
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answering member
1453
label Biography information for Andrew Selous more like this
tabling member
4499
label Biography information for Lord Davies of Gower remove filter