Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Johanna Baxter and Lloyd Hatton

Thursday 8th May 2025 Commons Chamber

[Johanna Baxter (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) (Lab)]

4. What steps her Department is taking to support the Serious Fraud Office in tackling economic crime.

[Lloyd Hatton (South Dorset) (Lab)]

9. What steps her Department is taking to support the Serious Fraud Office in tackling economic crime.

[The Solicitor General]

This Government are determined to crack down on the scourge of economic crime, and the Serious Fraud Office does crucial work to tackle complex fraud, bribery and corruption. Under its new director, the SFO has opened nine new overt investigations and charged 16 defendants. Just last week, I saw the SFO’s crucial work at first hand when I observed a dawn raid carried out in relation to a new multimillion-pound bribery investigation.