Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to Economic crime plan 2023 to 2026, published on 30 March 2023, if he will provide a breakdown of the £200 million funding for tackling economic crime in the Spending Review period by (a) the Government Departments and agencies which will receive the funding and (b) how it breaks down into (i) resource departmental expenditure limits (RDEL), (ii) resource annually managed expenditure (AME), (iii) capital departmental expenditure limits (CDEL) and (iv) Capital AME.

This question was answered on 26th April 2023
The second Economic Crime Plan is underpinned by significant investment of £400 million from financial year 2022/23 to financial year 2024/25. This funding represents £200 million of government investment and £200 million from the Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy, which together provide sustainable, long-term funding to combat economic crime.

The Economic Crime (Anti-Money Laundering) Levy funding will be used over the next three years to benefit the entire anti-money laundering system in both the public and private sectors. This includes investing over £100 million in technology, funding for more skilled financial crime investigators, specialist intelligence teams, and the UK Financial Intelligence Unit. Additionally, it will fund a team to accelerate the reform of the AML supervisory supervision regime. In tandem, funding announced at Spending Review 2021 will continue to support reform of the Suspicious Activity Reports regime, reform of Companies House, and the work of HM Treasury's Illicit Finance Technical Assistance Unit (TAU).

For further details please see the Spending Review 2021 document which can be found here:

Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021: documents - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)