Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the implications of her Department's policies of the criminal complaint into money laundering filed with the National Crime Agency on 21 March 2016 by the Hermitage Fund; and if she will make a statement.

This Government is committed to attacking criminal finances and making the UK a more hostile environment for those who seek to move, hide and use the proceeds of crime and corruption.

To this end, the Government published its Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance in April 2016. In October this year, the Criminal Finances Bill, which will implement key legislative elements of the Action Plan, was introduced to Parliament.