Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, on how many occasions in 2013-14 the Serious Fraud Office either referred or recommended that a complainant refer a case of alleged fraud, bribery or money-laundering by a UK company to (a) another police force, (b) another UK regulator, (c) an agency in the US and (d) an agency in an overseas jurisdiction other than the US.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) receives a large number of direct complaints each year and in appropriate circumstances the SFO will recommend that the complainants refer the matter to another agency.

In 2013-14, the SFO referred 2,945 complainants to Action Fraud or to the police. The SFO does not record how many of these complaints relate to UK companies only.

The table below shows the number of formal referrals made by the SFO during 2013-14to police forces, regulators and to agencies in the US and in other jurisdictions . The SFO does not record whether referrals relate to UK companies only.