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1002140

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Action Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of reports to Action Fraud are referred to a (a) local police force and (b) Regional Organised Crime Unit.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	188204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>In the period up to March 2018 Action Fraud recorded 277,561 crimes (Source: ONS – April 17 to March 18). The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which analyses crimes recorded by Action Fraud, cannot directly task Regional Organised Crime Units.</p><p>In light of which crimes are allocated to forces as per the rules set out in the Home Office Counting Rules. In the same period (April 17 to March 18) the NFIB disseminated 53,574 crimes to Police forces (a), a further 120 crimes were sent direct to Regional Organised Crime Units as a result of the NFIB being aware of an ongoing investigation which was being undertaken by them.</p><p>A considerable number of the crimes will have been perpetrated by the same criminal group.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/02/2019 16:25:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

1012431

registered interest
date	22/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for what reason his Department has not answered Question 181236 on Armed Conflict: Capital Punishment, asked on 18 October 2018.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	194671
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The reponse for UIN 181326 was given on the 14th February 2019.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 14/02/2019 16:59:51 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1013113

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering: Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investigations into high-end money laundering have been opened by the National Crime Agency in each year since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	195061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p><br>The number of new investigations launched by the National Crime Agency into high end money laundering by financial year since 2014 are as follows:</p><p><br>• 2014/15 – 2 new</p><p>• 2015/16 – 5 new</p><p>• 2016/17 – 8 new</p><p>• 2017/18 – 20 ne</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/01/2019 16:07:27 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1013114

registered interest
date	23/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Money Laundering: Criminal Investigation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the investigations into high-end money laundering opened by the National Crime Agency have resulted in charging decisions since 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	195062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The number of investigations into high end money laundering opened by the National Crime Agency which have resulted in charging decisions since 2014 are as follows:</p><p>• 2014/15 – 34</p><p>• 2015/16 – 17</p><p>• 2016/17 – 8</p><p>• 2018/19 – 10</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/01/2019 10:19:12 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

1020371

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Offshore Trusts: City of London
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate the Government has made of the level of money laundering and large-scale fraud made by way of financial transactions and offshore trust funds through the City of London.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	199260
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The NCA estimates that there is a realistic possibility that the scale of money laundering impacting on the UK annually is at least in the tens of billions of pounds. The cost to businesses and the public sector from organised fraud is no less than £5.9 billion.</p><p>This Government has launched the new National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), which will deliver a step change in the UK's response to - and impact on - economic crime. For the first time, the NECC brings together enforcement and justice agencies (HM Revenue and Customs, the City of London Police, the National Crime Agency, the Serious Fraud Office and the Crown Prosecution Service), other government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down economic crime in the UK. It will leverage a 'whole system' approach to enhance and coordinate our collective capabilities to target, pursue and dismantle the highest harm serious and organised criminals, including corrupt elites. Where appropriate this will include prosecutions.</p><p>This Government launched the new Serious and Organised Crime Strategy on 1 November and will invest at least £48m in 2019/20 in law enforcement capabilities to step up efforts to tackle illicit finance and enhance our overall response to serious and organised crime. These will include additional investment in the multi-agency NECC; increased frontline capacity and capability to tackle fraud; and an uplift in investigative and intelligence assessment capabilities at the National Crime Agency.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 199261 question first answered 29/01/2019 16:02:55 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

1020372

registered interest
date	05/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Financial Services: Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to improve conviction rates for (a) fraud, (b) money laundering and (c) other financial criminal activity.
tabling member constituency	Luton North
tabling member printed	Kelvin Hopkins
uin	199261
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The NCA estimates that there is a realistic possibility that the scale of money laundering impacting on the UK annually is at least in the tens of billions of pounds. The cost to businesses and the public sector from organised fraud is no less than £5.9 billion.</p><p>This Government has launched the new National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), which will deliver a step change in the UK's response to - and impact on - economic crime. For the first time, the NECC brings together enforcement and justice agencies (HM Revenue and Customs, the City of London Police, the National Crime Agency, the Serious Fraud Office and the Crown Prosecution Service), other government departments, regulatory bodies and the private sector with a shared objective of driving down economic crime in the UK. It will leverage a 'whole system' approach to enhance and coordinate our collective capabilities to target, pursue and dismantle the highest harm serious and organised criminals, including corrupt elites. Where appropriate this will include prosecutions.</p><p>This Government launched the new Serious and Organised Crime Strategy on 1 November and will invest at least £48m in 2019/20 in law enforcement capabilities to step up efforts to tackle illicit finance and enhance our overall response to serious and organised crime. These will include additional investment in the multi-agency NECC; increased frontline capacity and capability to tackle fraud; and an uplift in investigative and intelligence assessment capabilities at the National Crime Agency.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 199260 question first answered 29/01/2019 16:02:55 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	2 label Biography information for Kelvin Hopkins

1023994

registered interest
date	12/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Home Office: Written Questions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has plans to publish the answer to Question 181236 tabled on 18 October 2018 and Question 194671 tabled on 22 November 2018 on Armed Conflict: Capital Punishment before the Christmas recess.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Pavilion
tabling member printed	Caroline Lucas
uin	201611
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>The responses for UIN 181236 and 194671 were given on the 14th February 2019.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 14/02/2019 17:04:48 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	3930 label Biography information for Caroline Lucas

1027333

registered interest
date	17/12/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Northern Ireland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what has cost to the public purse was of Operation Kenova to date.
tabling member constituency	Warley
tabling member printed	John Spellar
uin	202708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK Government continues to cooperate fully with the Operation Kenova investigation. Funding for the investigation is a matter for the PSNI and the devolved Department for Justice.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 20/02/2019 16:44:36 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	318 label Biography information for John Spellar

1038042

registered interest
date	08/01/2019
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: Venezuela
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the cost to the public purse of National Crime Agency activity to tackle crime and corruption emanating from Venezuela in each of the last 5 years.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	206284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>Given the risk to the security and integrity of operational activity, the National Crime Agency does not routinely publish information about the costs associated with any international cooperation.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/01/2019 15:47:33 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1046089

registered interest
date	22/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Joint Fraud Taskforce
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the joint fraud task force management board has met since the last published minutes of 20 June 2018.
tabling member constituency	Blackpool South
tabling member printed	Gordon Marsden
uin	211121
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Joint Fraud Taskforce Management Board has met on several occasions since 20 June 2018. They have been reviewing the work of the Joint Fraud Taskforce and how the group is structured, to ensure it is able to respond to the highest harm fraud threats we face, using all the powers and resources of its members to maximise impact. The Joint Fraud Taskforce Management Board will publicly report on their new approach shortly.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/01/2019 15:42:37 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	465 label Biography information for Gordon Marsden