Serious and organised crime affects more of us, more often, than any other national security threat, persistently eroding our economy and our communities. It costs the UK at least £37 billion every year.
The newly updated Serious and Organised Crime Strategy, published on 1st November 2018, sets out how the Government will mobilise the full force of the state and align the collective efforts of key partners from the public, private and voluntary sectors to tackle serious and organised crime together in one single approach.<\/p>
We also continue to invest in the right capabilities and tools for law enforcement, across Government and in partnership with the private sector to tackle SOC effectively.<\/p>
The cross-system approach is aligned to the four strategy objectives:
o Relentless disruption and targeted action against the highest harm serious and organised criminals and networks affecting the UK<\/p>
o Building the highest levels of defence and resilience in vulnerable people, communities, businesses and systems<\/p>
o Stopping the problem at source, identifying and supporting those at risk of engaging in criminality<\/p>
o Establishing a single, whole-system response, aligning the efforts of all those involved in responding to serious and organised crime as one, cohesive system.<\/p>
The Government has already made some early progress in implementing the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy. For example, we have:
\u2022 established and expanded the new community coordinator programme pilot areas in England and in Wales to promote community resilience and divert people away from serious and organised crime;
\u2022 deployed a new cross-government overseas policy specialists network to complement existing international law enforcement operational work abroad;.
\u2022 established a National UK Protected Persons Services in the National Crime Agency on 1st April 2019, through the transfer of England and Wales based Protected Person Units, to ensure the best protection possible is available to individuals while enhanc-ing judicial outcomes across the Criminal Justice Service.
The Government is determined to prevent serious and organised crime, defend against it, track down perpetrators and bring them to justice. We will allow no safe space \u2013 online or offline \u2013 for these people and their networks.<\/p>"}
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The Government recognises the corrosive effects of corruption at the border in both the 2017-2022 Anti-Corruption Strategy and the 2018 Serious and Organised Crime Strategy. As committed in the Anti-Corruption Strategy, the Home Office is leading on a comprehensive work programme to understand, manage and mitigate this vulnerability. Alongside Strategy implementation, law enforcement agencies continue to target the organised crime groups who use corruption, collusion and coercion to enable criminality at our airports and ports.<\/p>
Border Force itself is working to address the risk, including raising staff awareness of their vulnerability to attempts by Organised Crime Gangs to compromise their integrity. Measures are being put in place to encourage staff to declare such attempts or any potentially compromising developments in their personal lives, so they can be protected and mitigations put in place. Border Force is also improving intelligence and information sharing with other agencies, to ensure corruption risks are identified and that any insider threat is addressed at the earliest opportunity, working with the NCA to ensure an effective and robust response.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1539", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Wyre and Preston North"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Mr Ben Wallace"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-05-20", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-05-20T15:12:43.053Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Home Office"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Home Office"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-05-14", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Borders: Organised Crime"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to prevent the corruption of public officials at the UK's borders by those involved in organised crime.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/308", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Coventry South"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Jim Cunningham"} ], "uin" : "254119"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1125698", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Home Office"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1125698/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
No estimate has been made on this specific issue by the Home Office.<\/p>
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All animal species that were used in regulated procedures in Great Britain can be found in Table 1 of the data tables published within the \u2018Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals\u2019 statistical reports.https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals<\/a><\/p> There is a further breakdown, for the 2017 year only, of those included within the \u2018other\u2019 species categories. This can be found within Table 12 of the data tables published in the 2017 statistical report.https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/statistics-of-scientific-procedures-on-living-animals-great-britain-2017<\/a><\/p> In 2017, the majority of experimental procedures used mice, fish and rats. Together these three species accounted for 87% of experimental procedures in Great Britain<\/p> The animal species used in regulated procedures in Northern Ireland can also be found in Table 1 of the data tables published within the \u2018Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals in Northern Ireland\u2019 reports. https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/publications/statistics-scientific-procedures-living-animals-northern-ireland<\/a><\/p> <\/p>"}
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For Northern Ireland, the Department of Health separately collects and publishes information on regulated procedures under devolved arrangements<\/p>