Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what was the (a) annual budget, broken down by core budget and external funding lines and (b) headcount FTE in each of the past 5 years for the National Crime Agency’s (i) National Economic Crime Command, (ii) National Economic Crime Centre, (iii) Proceeds of Crime Centre, (iv) Financial Intelligence Unit, (v) Civil Recovery and Tax team, (vi) Combating Kleptocracy Cell and (vii) International Corruption Unit, separating overseas development assistance funding and non-aid funding for (vii).
As a matter of longstanding policy, the National Crime Agency does not provide breakdowns and estimates on the specific budget allocations to target particular crime types.
Details about the Agency’s budgets can be found online in our Annual Report and Accounts https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/who-we-are/publications/757-nca-annual-report-accounts-2024-25/file.
The FTE counts for the teams requested are:
| May 2022 | May 2023 | May 2024 | May 2025 | May 2026 |
National Economic Crime Centre | 89.98 | 94.12 | 110.04 | 121.69 | 121.12 |
UK Financial Intelligence Unit | 149.07 | 173.55 | 178.79 | 178.41 | 187.57 |
Proceeds of Crime Centre | 19.26 | 16.99 | 22.2 | 21.6 | 22.6 |
We are unable to provide FTE figures for all requested teams due to reasons of operational sensitivity.