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<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>
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