National Crime Agency: Staff

(asked on 9th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many staff there were in the National Crime Agency's Financial Intelligence Unit in each of the last five years.


Answered by
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Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 19th November 2021

Budget: The UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU) is part of the NCA called the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC). Overall annual expenditure for the NECC is available in the NCA’s Annual Reports for the past three years (since it has been formed).

2018/19 - Gross expenditure for the Prosperity Command - £22.0m (Note the NECC was formally launched on 31 October 2018, before which the NCA’s Prosperity Command fulfilled some of the same functions. In the 2019/20 Annual Report, an apportionment of £6.7m in 2018/19 was made for the NECC.)

2019/20 - Gross expenditure for the NECC - £30.0m

2020/21 – Gross expenditure for the NECC - £35.5m

Number of UKFIU staff:

The most recent information on the number of staff within the UKFIU can be found in the Economic Crime Plan Statement of Progress available here: Economic crime plan 2019 to 2022 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

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