Apr. 03 2025
Source Page: Serious Fraud Office sets out next steps in ambitious planFound: Serious Fraud Office sets out next steps in ambitious plan
Estimate memoranda Mar. 11 2025
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: Serious Fraud Office Supplementary Estimates Memorandum 2024-25 Estimate memoranda
Mentions:
1: Lucy Rigby (Lab - Northampton North) like to inform the House that a cash advance from the Contingencies Fund has been sought for the Serious - Speech Link
Apr. 03 2025
Source Page: Serious Fraud Office sets out next steps in ambitious planFound: Serious Fraud Office sets out next steps in ambitious plan
Dec. 23 2024
Source Page: Serious Fraud Office launches 2025 Trainee Investigator ProgrammeFound: Serious Fraud Office launches 2025 Trainee Investigator Programme
Jun. 10 2008
Source Page: Review of the Serious Fraud Office: final report. By Jessica de Grazia. 157 p.Found: Review of the Serious Fraud Office: final report. By Jessica de Grazia. 157 p.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, how many full-time equivalent diversity, equality and inclusion staff are employed by the Serious Fraud Office.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
The Serious Fraud Office has one full-time equivalent staff member employed on this basis.
Asked by: John Hayes (Conservative - South Holland and The Deepings)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, for what purposes the Serious Fraud Office has used AI in the last 12 months.
Answered by Lucy Rigby - Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the heart of the Government’s plan to kickstart an era of economic growth, transform how we deliver public services, and boost living standards for working people across the country.
During the past 12 months, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been trialling the use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR), utilising AI, on a live criminal case. The trial demonstrated that TAR could help meet legal disclosure obligations more efficiently.
The trial adhered to relevant disclosure guidelines and officials are still making the decisions on what is in fact relevant and what is disclosed.
Following the success of the trial, the SFO is planning to use TAR in more SFO cases in the future.
Asked by: Phil Brickell (Labour - Bolton West)
Question to the Attorney General:
To ask the Solicitor General, what progress she has made on plans to create a whistleblowing incentive program within the Serious Fraud Office.
Answered by Sarah Sackman - Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This Government is committed to cracking down on serious fraud and economic crime.
The Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has expressed support for the incentivisation of whistleblowers and the SFO Strategy 2024-29 committed to explore options for achieving this, working with partners in the UK and abroad.
The Government will continue to work with the SFO to understand what reforms could be made to help them deliver their mission as effectively as possible.
Asked by: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Collins of Highbury on 25 February (HL5027), whether the (1) Serious Fraud Office, (2) Independent Office for Police Conduct, and (3) National Crime Agency, are paid members or affiliates of Stonewall.
Answered by Lord Hanson of Flint - Minister of State (Home Office)
The Independent Office for Police Conduct is a paid member of Stonewall.
The Serious Fraud Office and National Crime Agency are neither members nor affiliates of Stonewall.