Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what discussions she has held with the National Crime Agency on the resourcing of the economic crime unit.

The new National Economic Crime Centre will task and coordinate the overall law enforcement response to economic crime. The Home Office is working with partners across government, law enforcement, regulators and the private sector on the design of the centre, which has an initial £6m in funding allocated to it in the 18/19 financial year.