Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Attorney General

Oral Answers to Questions

Stephen Mosley Excerpts
Tuesday 10th February 2015

(9 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Wright Portrait The Attorney-General
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There is huge value always in looking at the way in which Government agencies do their business and in finding efficiencies and changes if it is beneficial to do so, but I think the Roskill model on which the Serious Fraud Office is based—that is, the combination of lawyers, investigators, prosecutors, accountants and the like, all in multidisciplinary teams—is a sensible model, and it is delivering effective results.

Stephen Mosley Portrait Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con)
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With the Serious Fraud Office doing some incredibly complex investigations into companies such as Barclays, Tesco and G4S, does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that there is a need for very close working between the Serious Fraud Office and other Government agencies, such as the NCA, the police and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs?

Jeremy Wright Portrait The Attorney-General
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I agree with my hon. Friend. Close working is always important and the Serious Fraud Office tries to do that. I am sure the intergovernment review will find better ways of co-ordinating if there are better ways to be found.