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Written Question
Banks: Crime
Monday 17th July 2017

Asked by: Mhairi Black (Scottish National Party - Paisley and Renfrewshire South)

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the effect of proposals to move the functions of the Serious Fraud Office to the National Crime Agency on criminality in the banking sector.

Answered by Jeremy Wright

The Government is committed to strengthening the UK's response to bribery, corruption, money laundering, fraud and other forms of economic crime.

The Government is continuing to review options to improve the effectiveness of the UK's response to economic crime, and any measures resulting from this work will be announced in due course.