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1086313

registered interest
date	11/03/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of recommendations in the Addendum to the 2015 Madrid Guiding Principle 10(29)(e) to "increase the use of financial intelligence and financial footprints as a tool to detect networks of terrorists, financiers and sympathizers".
tabling member printed	Lord Alton of Liverpool
uin	HL14357
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/03/2019 answer text <p>Investigating authorities have access to a broad range of investigative tools and financial intelligence which can be easily shared between relevant agencies. Since 2015, investigators may also share and obtain information from other Law Enforcement Authorities (LEAs) and financial institutions through the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Task Force, a public-private collaboration.</p><p>The UK’s capacity for undertaking terrorist financing investigations was extended by the Criminal Finances Act 2017 which now permits the financial investigation powers in the Terrorism Act 2000 to be exercised by civilian accredited financial investigators employed by LEAs and allows for these orders to be recognised across different UK jurisdictions.</p><p>The international Financial Action Task Force, in their December 2018 report on the UK’s measures to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, concluded that ‘the UK has been highly effective in investigating, prosecuting and convicting a range of terrorist financing activity’.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 25/03/2019 17:47:19 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	738 label Biography information for Lord Alton of Liverpool

1064367

registered interest
date	20/02/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that private donations from the UK are not used to support and fund terrorism.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	223841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2019 answer text <p>The UK has a strong reputation for tackling terrorist financing as demonstrat-ed in the UK’s Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Mutual Evaluation Report published in December 2018 which gave the UK the highest possible rating on how it tackles terrorist financing.</p><p><br>Our approach to countering terrorist finance is multifaceted and we have a range of disruptive tools and capabilities at our disposal to prevent the movement of terrorist finance into and out of the UK.</p><p><br>We have strengthened our legislative framework under the Criminal Finances Act 2017, this includes the ability to seize funds held in bank accounts to pre-vent terrorist funding. We also work very closely with the financial sector who, along with other reporting sectors, are required to disclose any suspicions they have concerning terrorist financing to the UK Financial Investigation Unit via Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs). The Joint Money Laundering Intelli-gence Task Force (JMLIT) also brings together Government, financial institu-tions and law enforcement to exchange and analyse information to better de-tect and prevent the movement of terrorist funds.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/02/2019 16:50:50 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

758787

registered interest
date	07/09/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many accounts in UK banks have been frozen as a result of allegations of terrorist financing in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	9486
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2017 answer text <p>The Terrorist Asset Freezing etc. Act (2010) and UN asset freezing measures against ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (2011) provide the mechanisms for the assets of a person, including funds in any bank accounts, to be frozen. An asset freeze is only applied where the relevant legal tests have been met. The number of accounts frozen under these measures at the end of each calendar year are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017 (to date)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>90</p></td><td><p>80</p></td><td><p>79</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>41</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><em>Source: HM Treasury statistics</em></p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 27/11/2017 17:55:40 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds

748217

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to publish a report on the funding of extremist activities in the UK by foreign governments, entities or individuals.
tabling member constituency	Carshalton and Wallington
tabling member printed	Tom Brake
uin	2977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government is determined to cut off the funding which fuels the evils of extremism in the UK. In November 2015, the Government commissioned a review into the funding of Islamist extremist activity in the UK, including any overseas sources. The review reported to the Home Secretary and Prime Minister in 2016 and it has improved the Government’s understanding of the nature, scale and sources of funding for Islamist extremism in the UK.</p><p>The Government has updated Parliament on the review’s main findings on Wednesday 12 July 2017.</p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 12/07/2017 12:27:36 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
tabling member	151 label Biography information for Tom Brake

625815

registered interest
date	31/10/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to criminalise the withholding of knowledge relating to the presence or movement of funds for terrorist use made available through the co-operation of British business.
tabling member printed	Lord James of Blackheath
uin	HL2834
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2016 answer text <p>Under Section 19, Part 3 of the Terrorism Act 2000, it is already a criminal offence to fail to disclose, without reasonable excuse, information which relates to a terrorist finance offence.</p><p>The Criminal Finance Bill will provide new measures to assist where incomplete information is provided and where a criminal prosecution would be disproportionate. The Bill will enable law enforcement officers to first issue a notice and then seek a Court order to compel any member of the regulated sector to provide further information in relation to a Suspicious Activity Report that has been made under the Terrorism Act 2000. Failure to comply with the order carries a fine of up to £5000.</p><p>The Bill will also make disclosure orders available for terrorist finance investigations, enabling a judge to make an order directing someone to answer questions, provide information or produce documents in relation to a terrorist financing investigation. Making a false statement or failing to comply, without reasonable excuse, will be a criminal offence.</p> answering member printed Baroness Williams of Trafford question first answered 14/11/2016 16:13:09 answering member 4311 label Biography information for Baroness Williams of Trafford
tabling member	3799 label Biography information for Lord James of Blackheath

452181

registered interest
date	10/02/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Finance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will provide an analysis of the main funding sources for those arrested in the UK for alleged terrorist activities as categorised in the 2015 <i>European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report</i>.
tabling member printed	Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
uin	HL6128
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2016 answer text <p>We are unable to provide analysis for the arrests included in this report as the information is not centrally recorded in this way, and many of these investigations will be ongoing. However, the UK National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, released in October 2015, provides our assessment of the methods used to raise funds for terrorism in the UK, drawing on operational experience.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/02/2016 12:45:13 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	4175 label Biography information for Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

423362

registered interest
date	22/10/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Terrorism: Finance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions did the National Crime Agency received notice of suspicion of terrorist financing from private sector institutions, under Part III of the Terrorism Act 2000, in the last 12 months for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Mr Christopher Chope
uin	12956
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2015 answer text <p>In total, between 1 October 2014 and 30 September 2015 the National Crime Agency received 1,216 Suspicious Activity Reports under the provisions of the Terrorism Act 2000.</p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 29/10/2015 17:30:57 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes previous answer version 25926 answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley answering member 4110
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope