Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Flag it up campaign; and if she will make a statement.

The Home Office’s Flag It Up campaign is delivered in partnership with the accountancy and legal sectors, as well as law enforcement partners, to deter professionals within these sectors from potential involvement in money laundering.

A robust range of measures are in place to evaluate the impact of this intervention.

Evaluation of the previous phase demonstrated that professionals who recognised Flag It Up were twice as likely to say they submitted a Suspicious Activity Report either to their Money Laundering Reporting Officer or directly to the NCA, compared to professionals who did not recognise the campaign.

Evaluation of the current phase of the campaign is ongoing and will be available in May.