Speeches

Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-04-27.

To ask the Attorney General, (a) how much funding he has allocated to and (b) how many full-time equivalent staff were employed by the (i) Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and (ii) SFO’s Proceeds of Crime Division in each year since 2009.

Jeremy Wright

The information requested is contained in the following tables.

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

SFO gross budget

£44.6m

£41.3m

£40.1m

£43.7m

£54m

£59.4m

£62.2m

SFO Proceeds of Crime Division 2

£0.920m

£1.021m

£1.571m

£1.683m

£1.931m

£2.304m

£2.674m

Full time equivalent staff 3

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

2015-16

SFO

307

305

306

292

305

4014

393

SFO Proceeds of Crime Division

13

17

21

20

23.43

32.71

31.43

  1. The figures includes any blockbuster funding received in each year. They exclude capital expenditure, annually managed expenditure.
  2. The Proceeds of Crime figures include the budget for the current year and outturn for the previous years. They do not include £110k funding received from the Department for International Development in the financial years 2014-15 & 2015-16.
  3. This data covers FTE staff in post as at 31st March each year including fixed term contractors, but not agency staff. Complete records for staff in post in the Proceeds of Crime division before 2011-12 are not held centrally and the figures provided for these years are based on available data.
  4. This is a revised figure which corrects the number previously published in the SFO Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15.