Lord Laird – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Ministry of Justice

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Laird on 2016-03-11.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government by what criteria they define a serious crime as opposed to other crimes.

Lord Faulks

Various definitions of serious crime are used in different contexts. Sections 2, 2A and 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Serious Crime Act 2007 define ‘involved in serious crime’ for the purposes of Part I of that Act, which relates to serious crime prevention orders. Section 81 (2) and (3) of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 defines ‘serious crime’ for the purposes of that Act.