Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Geoffrey Cox and Christian Matheson

Thursday 1st November 2018 Commons Chamber

[The Attorney General]

The Crown Prosecution Service this year recovered between £80 million and £100 million of illicit assets. Organised crime and the illicit financing of terrorism is one of the Government’s priorities. It is being co-ordinated by the National Crime Agency. It is being met with a range of new tools, including unexplained wealth orders, which we will be using as hard and as impactfully as we can in future months.

[Christian Matheson (City of Chester) (Lab)]

8. What plans he has to undertake a review of the effectiveness of prosecutions under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.