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347772

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	FIFA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether criminal investigations are being carried out to determine whether UK financial institutions have been used to carry out illegal transactions related to FIFA.
tabling member constituency	Eltham
tabling member printed	Clive Efford
uin	626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been aware of allegations relating to FIFA for some time and has kept the situation under active review. It would not be appropriate to go into the details of those allegations.<br><br>For the SFO to open an investigation, the Director must be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect serious or complex fraud within the UK's criminal jurisdiction.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 627 question first answered 04/06/2015 12:01:01 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

347773

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	FIFA: Corruption
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, what discussions (a) Ministers in his Department and (b) the Serious Fraud Office have had with (i) the Swiss authorities and (ii) the US Justice Department about the investigation of fraud, racketeering and money laundering at FIFA.
tabling member constituency	Eltham
tabling member printed	Clive Efford
uin	625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2015 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office engages regularly with its overseas counterparts to discuss issues of mutual interest, but it is not appropriate to comment on such casework discussions as might take place.</p><p> </p><p>It is not the practice for the Law Officers to comment upon live investigations, or to confirm or deny that Ministerial discussions about particular cases have taken place.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 08/06/2015 12:56:44 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

347774

registered interest
date	01/06/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	FIFA
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, when the Serious Fraud Office first became aware that UK financial institutions may have been used to carry out illegal transactions relating to FIFA; what action was taken; and when he was first made aware of this possibility.
tabling member constituency	Eltham
tabling member printed	Clive Efford
uin	627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2015 answer text <p>The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been aware of allegations relating to FIFA for some time and has kept the situation under active review. It would not be appropriate to go into the details of those allegations.<br><br>For the SFO to open an investigation, the Director must be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect serious or complex fraud within the UK's criminal jurisdiction.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland grouped question UIN 626 question first answered 04/06/2015 12:01:02 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	165 label Biography information for Clive Efford

347281

registered interest
date	28/05/2015
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Private Prosecutions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions the Director of Public Prosecutions has (a) taken over and (b) discontinued private prosecutions in the last 10 years for which data is available.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	317
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain an authoritative central record of the number of private prosecutions (a) taken over and (b) discontinued by the Director of Public Prosecutions. To identify the number would require a manual exercise to review individual files which would incur a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency South Swindon answering member printed Robert Buckland question first answered 03/06/2015 13:06:32 answering member 4106 label Biography information for Sir Robert Buckland
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon