My right hon. Friend is making an excellent analysis of the situation. At the moment, the SFO is itself being investigated by a former Director of Public Prosecutions and being sued by the people it should be investigating. It lacks the money, the personnel and the powers to do its job. It has a £53 million a year budget against hundreds of billions of dirty money. This is a peashooter against an elephant, is it not? This needs reform urgently.
Economic Crime: Law Enforcement
Proceeding contribution from
Andy Slaughter
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 7 July 2022.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Economic Crime: Law Enforcement.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
717 c1049
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2023-01-30 16:18:30 +0000
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-07-07/22070733000004
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-07-07/22070733000004
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2022-07-07/22070733000004