PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Foreign Investment in UK: Russia (30 November 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has made an assessment of the implications for her Department's policies of evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee by Mr Williams Browder on 3 May 2016 on use of funds raised through criminal activity in Russia for investment in the UK; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by:
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Conservative)

This Government is committed to attacking criminal finances and making the UK a more hostile environment for those who seek to move, hide and use the proceeds of crime and corruption.

To this end, the Government published its Action Plan for anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance in April 2016. In October this year, the Criminal Finances Bill, which will implement key legislative elements of the Action Plan, was introduced to Parliament.

Answered by:
Mr Ben Wallace (Conservative)
5 December 2016