Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many arrests the International Corruption Unit of the National Crime Agency has made since its creation.

As serious and organised crime threats change, the National Crime Agency retains the ability to flex its resources to react. There are a number of agency wide capabilities and functions that all commands have access to and use in the fight against serious and organised crime.

The number of staff working in a particular unit is not a reliable indicator of the overall National Crime Agency resource linked to a particular type of crime. The majority of the National Crime Agency’s staff work as a flexible investigative resource, not in a particular unit, but assigned to particular operations across all areas of the NCA as needed.

The National Crime Agency does not break down the number of arrests by department (or National Crime Agency predecessors). Activity that leads to arrest and successful prosecution, is often the result of work undertaken by multiple units across the agency.