Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the Government will review the effectiveness of enforcement tools for tackling money laundering.

The Government has legislated, by way of the Criminal Finances Act 2017, to provide law enforcement agencies with new powers to tackle money laundering. These include Unexplained Wealth Orders, which require those linked to serious crime to explain the origin of their assets, and new civil powers to freeze and forfeit criminal funds held in bank accounts without the need for a criminal conviction.