Asked by: Andrew Mitchell (Conservative - Sutton Coldfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many investor visas have been granted to Russian nationals since 2006.
Answered by Robert Goodwill
The information requested is published in quarterly statistics from table vi_06_q_w in Immigration Statistics, July – September 2016, in line with Ministerial guidance. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-july-to-september-2016/list-of-tables#visas
Asked by: Andrew Mitchell (Conservative - Sutton Coldfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications of her Department's policies of the criminal complaint into money laundering filed with the National Crime Agency on 21 March 2016 by the Hermitage Fund; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Ben Wallace
This Government is committed to attacking criminal finances and making the UK a more hostile environment for those who seek to move, hide and use the proceeds of crime and corruption.
To this end, the Government published its Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance in April 2016. In October this year, the Criminal Finances Bill, which will implement key legislative elements of the Action Plan, was introduced to Parliament.
Asked by: Andrew Mitchell (Conservative - Sutton Coldfield)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her Department's policies of evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee by Mr Williams Browder on 3 May 2016 on use of funds raised through criminal activity in Russia for investment in the UK; and if she will make a statement.
Answered by Ben Wallace
This Government is committed to attacking criminal finances and making the UK a more hostile environment for those who seek to move, hide and use the proceeds of crime and corruption.
To this end, the Government published its Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance in April 2016. In October this year, the Criminal Finances Bill, which will implement key legislative elements of the Action Plan, was introduced to Parliament.