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Criminal Finances Bill

Proceeding contribution from Ben Wallace (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 25 October 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills on Criminal Finances Bill.

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that 381,000 referrals is a hefty amount to get through. First, we need to ensure that there is time to get through them. Secondly, what we do not want is what has happened in the past, which is that the private sector makes a suspicious activity report by default.

If we can remove those excuses about why it cannot get to the bottom of a transaction before it passes it on, that will ensure that it passes on proper suspicious activities, rather than the ones that it can satisfy itself are not such a problem. In that way, we can cut out some of the referrals that are unnecessarily done.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
616 c196 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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