Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jerome Mayhew and James Sunderland

Thursday 26th May 2022 Commons Chamber

[Jerome Mayhew (Broadland) (Con)]

4. What assessment she has made of the Serious Fraud Office’s ability to tackle serious economic crime in 2022-23.

[James Sunderland (Bracknell) (Con)]

6. What assessment she has made of the Serious Fraud Office’s ability to tackle serious economic crime in 2022-23.

[The Solicitor General (Alex Chalk)]

In the past five years, the Serious Fraud Office has secured reparations for criminal behaviour from organisations it has investigated totalling over £1.3 billion. That sum is over and above the cost of running the SFO itself. In addition to recent convictions leading to fines and confiscation orders totalling more than £100 million, just this week Glencore Energy has indicated that it intends to plead guilty to seven bribery counts brought by the SFO in relation to its oil operations in Africa.