Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, what recent steps the Serious Fraud Office has taken to prevent serious fraud and other economic crimes.

Over the past two years the Serious Fraud Office has secured:

• the first contested convictions for rate rigging,
• its first contested conviction of a corporate for offences involving bribery of foreign officials,
• the first two Deferred Prosecution Agreements in the UK, and
• the first conviction of a corporate for an offence under s7 of the Bribery Act.