Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to footnote 2, page 9 of the publication entitled No Place to Hide: Serious and Organised Crime Strategy 2023-2028, if his Department will publish the reasoning for using inflation as the sole factor of methodology in updating the cost of Serious and Organised Crime in the UK from £37 billion to £47 billion per year.

The Home Office will update the figure in 2024 once data for financial year 2022/23 is available across all the SOC crime areas.