Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any funding for the new national economic crime centre will be allocated out of the budgets for the Serious Fraud Office or any of the other relevant agencies involved in the centre.

The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) is a multi-agency initiative supported by enforcement and justice agencies across the piece through financial and/or staffing contributions. The new NECC has £6m allocated to it in 18/19. Decisions on the overall funding of the SFO, NCA and other law enforcement agencies is agreed through the Spending Review process.