Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress she has made on implementing the commitment in paragraph 6.44 of the Serious and Organised Crime Strategy, published in October 2013, to review the financial incentives provided to support whistle blowers in cases of fraud, bribery and corruption.

The Government is committed to supporting those who report cases of fraud, bribery and corruption. Earlier this year, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills issued the Government’s response to a call for evidence on the whistleblowing framework, setting out how it will be strengthened to support whisteblowers; and the National Crime Agency was recently added to the list of prescribed persons to whom whistleblowers can make a disclosure and be protected under employment legislation. There have been a number of recent reports evaluating the case for financial incentives and the Government continues to consider what more can be done to support whistleblowers in cases of bribery and corruption.