Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 25 November 2014 to Question 215386, how many of the suspicious activity reports submitted to the National Crime Agency or the Serious Organised Crime Agency in the last five years were connected to (a) alleged terrorism and (b) each other category of offence.

Suspicious activity reports (SARs) are submitted to the National Crime Agency under two pieces of legislation: the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 for suspicions of money laundering, or the Terrorism Act 2000 for suspicions of terrorist
financing. The predicate offence in each case is not required when submitting a SAR and therefore no record of other categories of offences is held.

The following table details the numbers of SARs submitted to the NCA and SOCA in the last five years which were submitted under suspicions of terrorist financing and those submitted under suspicion of money laundering offences.