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1698615

registered interest
date	25/03/2024
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
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 an assessment of the potential merits of using recovered monies from the proceeds of crime to provide adaptive sports equipment for police officers.
tabling member constituency	Darlington
tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
uin	20426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2024 answer text <p>Funds recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) are distributed under the Home Office’s Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS). The objective of ARIS is to provide agencies with incentives to use POCA powers to recover more criminal assets, with the overall aim of cutting crime and delivering justice.</p><p>Under the scheme, a proportion of the assets recovered using powers under POCA are redistributed to the agencies involved in the recovery, based on their relative contributions. The current allocation sees ARIS receipts split 50:50 between central government and operational partners.</p><p>In the spirit of the Scheme, the Government encourages agencies to use ARIS funds to increase asset recovery and, where appropriate, fund local crime fighting priorities for the benefit of the community. However, the use of ARIS allocations/payments is a matter for each agency and is left to their discretion. Further information on ARIS and how funds are spent can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asset-recovery-statistical-bulletin-financial-years-ending-2018-to-2023/asset-recovery-statistical-bulletin-financial-years-ending-march-2018-to-march-2023#asset-recovery-incentivisation-scheme-aris" target="_blank">Asset Recovery Statistical Bulletin: Financial years ending March 2018 to March 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a>.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 18/04/2024 10:58:57 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1461168

registered interest
date	10/05/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has been made of the implications for her policies of the debate entitled How to put confiscated criminal assets to good use?, which took place at the Council of Europe on 27 April 2022.
tabling member constituency	Henley
tabling member printed	John Howell
uin	156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/05/2022 answer text <p>The UK has mature policies in place relating to the disposal of confiscated criminal assets. Domestically, confiscated assets are disposed of in line with the Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme (ARIS), under which operational agencies are allocated a portion of the assets recovered.</p><p>The use of ARIS allocations/payments is a matter for each agency. However, in the spirit of the Scheme, incentive payments should be used to drive up performance on asset recovery and, where appropriate, to fund local crime fighting priorities for the benefit of the community.</p><p>Internationally, the UK is fully committed to recovering and returning corruptly obtained assets. HMG has recently published its first ever Framework for Transparent and Accountable Return, which details HMG’s process for returning assets in line with UNCAC, including the involvement of civil society actors in this process.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 18/05/2022 11:28:12 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1606 label Biography information for John Howell

1399362

registered interest
date	04/01/2022
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much has been recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 by each police force in England and Wales in each year from 2010.
tabling member constituency	Bradford East
tabling member printed	Imran Hussain
uin	96900
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/01/2022 answer text <p>The Asset Recovery Statistical Bulletin is published annually and provides data on the total value of the proceeds of crime that have been recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) by each individual police force in the jurisdictions of England and Wales, Northern Ireland and those with no reported jurisdiction.</p><p>Data is available for financial years 2015/16 to 2020/21 and can found in <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1015099/asset-recovery-financial-years-2016-to-2021-tables.ods" target="_blank">Tables 12a and 12b</a>. In 2020/21 a total of £116.8m was recovered by police forces, including local and regional police forces from an overall total of £219m recovered by all POCA agencies.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/01/2022 17:52:05 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4394 label Biography information for Imran Hussain

1347956

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	Proceeds of Crime
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of Suspicious Activity Reports result in action by (1) police, or (2) other relevant authorities.
tabling member printed	Lord Oates
uin	HL2175
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/08/2021 answer text <p>The UKFIU does not hold figures for the proportion of Suspicious Activity Reports resulting in action by (1) police, or (2) other relevant authorities. The UKFIU received over 700,000 SARs in 2020/21 and made these reports available for police and other authorities to access, including in some instances allocating particular high-risk reports to specific partners. The cost of establishing actions resulting from each SAR would be disproportionate, noting that:</p><p>• a SAR is a report of suspicion as assessed the reporter and is not evidence of criminal conduct.</p><p>• a single SAR may be used several times by several different agencies for different purposes e.g. the information within the same SAR may inform a) HMRC about taxation b) local police about fraud or theft and c) a government department about a regulatory issue or a weakness in a financial product.</p><ul><li>some SARs provide new and immediate opportunities to stop crime and arrest offenders, others support existing investigations or help uncover potential criminality that could be investigated, while others provide intelligence useful at a point in the future.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>some SARs are disseminated to foreign jurisdictions.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>even if no criminal investigation is conducted, a SAR may contain information that contributes to understanding current threat trends or patterns. This helps reporters and law enforcement to plan and prevent against new crime trends.</li></ul><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Further information can be found in the Suspicious Activity Reports Annual Report 2020, including that last year almost £172m of assets were denied to suspected criminals as a result of SARs reporting.</p> answering member printed Lord Greenhalgh question first answered 02/08/2021 15:53:00 answering member 4877 label Biography information for Lord Greenhalgh
tabling member	4549 label Biography information for Lord Oates

1146972

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what type of costs are incurred by the public purse when dealing with assets seized by the NCA.
tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
uin	292203
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 292204 question first answered 08/10/2019 16:17:18 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1146973

registered interest
date	30/09/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what financial controls are in place to ensure the effective use of public funds when properties are seized by the National Crime Agency.
tabling member constituency	Romsey and Southampton North
tabling member printed	Caroline Nokes
uin	292204
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/10/2019 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Great Yarmouth answering member printed Brandon Lewis grouped question UIN 292203 question first answered 08/10/2019 16:17:18 answering member 4009 label Biography information for Sir Brandon Lewis
tabling member	4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes

1059239

registered interest
date	11/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government under which circumstances, if any, they intervene to block requests for assets to be remitted to foreign government organisations either from the UK or British overseas territories.
tabling member printed	Viscount Waverley
uin	HL13623
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>Under proceeds of crime legislation, asset sharing and repatriation is ultimately the Government’s decision following the recovery of assets/money under a court order it is a matter of how to then dispose of those recovered moneys. In confiscation cases, the UN Convention Against Corruption requires a full return to victim States and the EU Framework Decision on confiscation orders requires a 50% share in cases in excess of 10,000 Euros.</p><p>There are other bilateral and multilateral international agreements that encourage the sharing of recovered assets. The UK does not require an international agreement to share or repatriate assets and does so on request on an ad hoc basis. The presumption is that 50% is shared with the requesting country. There are few cases so far, but none have been refused.</p><p><br>The Government does not intervene with similar cases involving the Overseas Territories or Crown Dependencies.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/02/2019 16:57:53 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	1744 label Biography information for Viscount Waverley

986429

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money his Department has recovered under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 since January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	178466
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>Data on outstanding confiscation orders is published annually by HMCTS as part of their trust statement. The latest trust statement was published on 17 July 2018 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-courts-tribunals-service-trust-statement-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-courts-tribunals-service-trust-statement-2017-to-2018</a>), indicating a gross value of confiscation order debt at £1,961million, of which £152million is considered recoverable.</p><p>Data on asset recovery performance under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 is published annually by the Home Office. The latest data, showing asset recovery performance year on year from 2013-2018, was published on 13 September 2018 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/asset-recovery-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/asset-recovery-statistics</a>).</p><p>Data on asset recovery performance at the National Crime Agency is published annually in their annual report, which is published according to financial year.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 178465 178467 question first answered 22/10/2018 15:53:09 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

986431

registered interest
date	12/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much money was recovered from criminal proceeding by the National Crime Agency since January 2015.
tabling member constituency	Leicester East
tabling member printed	Keith Vaz
uin	178467
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/10/2018 answer text <p>Data on outstanding confiscation orders is published annually by HMCTS as part of their trust statement. The latest trust statement was published on 17 July 2018 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-courts-tribunals-service-trust-statement-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-courts-tribunals-service-trust-statement-2017-to-2018</a>), indicating a gross value of confiscation order debt at £1,961million, of which £152million is considered recoverable.</p><p>Data on asset recovery performance under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 is published annually by the Home Office. The latest data, showing asset recovery performance year on year from 2013-2018, was published on 13 September 2018 (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/asset-recovery-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/asset-recovery-statistics</a>).</p><p>Data on asset recovery performance at the National Crime Agency is published annually in their annual report, which is published according to financial year.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace grouped question UIN 178465 178466 question first answered 22/10/2018 15:53:09 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	338 label Biography information for Keith Vaz

933807

registered interest
date	02/07/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Proceeds of Crime
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value was of criminal assets seized by the police in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	159596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2018 answer text <p>The figures for the recovery of criminal assets are set out in the Asset Recovery Statistical Bulletin, and shows the total value of proceeds of crime collected each financial year between 2012 - 2017 using confiscation and cash forfeiture powers. The Bulletin can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asset-recovery-statistical-bulletin-financial-years-ending-2012-to-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/asset-recovery-statistical-bulletin-financial-years-ending-2012-to-2017</a></p><p>The Government has made a commitment to publish the next version of the Statistical Bulletin on 13 September 2018.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 09/07/2018 18:48:39 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon