Serious Fraud Office: Finance
(asked on 18th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Attorney General, how many times and for what reasons blockbuster funding requests from the Serious Fraud Office have been denied since 2012.
There have been eight blockbuster funding applications since 2010, all of which have been approved by the Treasury. Funding for these cases is provided from the reserve. Total reserve funding by year from 2012-13 is:
2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 |
£000s | £000s | £000s | £000s | £000s |
- | 5,000 | 2,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 |
6,735 | 19,000 | 23,237 | 18,000 | 7,500 |
6,735 | 24,000 | 25,237 | 28,000 | 17,500 |
All of these blockbuster funded cases are still under active investigation and it is not possible for operational reasons to provide a breakdown of how the funding is allocated in each case.
Reserve funding for years prior to 2016-17 also covers the costs of the SFO’s civil litigation cases.