Attorney General written question – answered at on 17 July 2017.
Mhairi Black
Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Pensions), Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Youth affairs)
To ask the Attorney General, what assessment he has made of the effect of proposals to move the functions of the Serious Fraud Office to the National Crime Agency on criminality in the banking sector.
Jeremy Wright
The Attorney-General
The Government is committed to strengthening the UK's response to bribery, corruption, money laundering, fraud and other forms of economic crime.
The Government is continuing to review options to improve the effectiveness of the UK's response to economic crime, and any measures resulting from this work will be announced in due course.
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