Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) prosecutions, and (2) convictions, in relation to fuel laundering there have been since 2014.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is not a prosecuting authority. All prosecutions have to be authorised by the relevant independent prosecuting authority, which for England and Wales would be the Crown Prosecution Service; for Scotland, the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service; and for Northern Ireland, the Public Prosecution Service for NI.

HMRC’s record does not differentiate between the forms of fuel fraud it investigates and so they cannot identify Prosecution and Convictions for fuel laundering. Prosecutions and Convictions instigated for oils offences since 2014 were as follows:

The figures for prosecutions and convictions in any particular year do not correspond as investigations and prosecutions do not always reach conclusion in the year that they commence.