National Crime Agency: Finance

(asked on 22nd June 2026) - View Source

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).


Answered by
Angela Eagle Portrait
Angela Eagle
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 29th June 2026

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.

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