Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Criminal Finances Improvement Plan 2014, what steps she is taking to work with the private sector to maximise asset recovery.

Attacking criminal finances is central to our Serious and Organised Crime Strategy. Under the criminal finances improvement plan we are working across Government and with operational partners to explore how private sector skills and capabilities can be deployed to maximise asset recovery.

Our work with private sector partners specifically includes:
• The Government is exploring new ways of working with the private sector to improve the enforcement of confiscation orders.
• The Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office have completed a review of the use of receivers to enforce confiscation orders, resulting in the launch of an improved framework for the use of enforcement receivers.
• HM Courts and Tribunal Service is actively seeking an external provider for the future delivery of compliance and enforcement services for criminal financial impositions. This includes the collection and enforcement of fines, compensation, prosecutor costs, victims surcharge, fixed penalties and Confiscation Orders.