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Debate between Johanna Baxter and Lloyd Hatton
Thursday 8th May 2025

(5 months, 4 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Johanna Baxter Portrait Johanna Baxter (Paisley and Renfrewshire South) (Lab)
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4. What steps her Department is taking to support the Serious Fraud Office in tackling economic crime.

Lloyd Hatton Portrait Lloyd Hatton (South Dorset) (Lab)
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9. What steps her Department is taking to support the Serious Fraud Office in tackling economic crime.

Lucy Rigby Portrait The Solicitor General
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This Government are determined to crack down on the scourge of economic crime, and the Serious Fraud Office does crucial work to tackle complex fraud, bribery and corruption. Under its new director, the SFO has opened nine new overt investigations and charged 16 defendants. Just last week, I saw the SFO’s crucial work at first hand when I observed a dawn raid carried out in relation to a new multimillion-pound bribery investigation.

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