Emily Thornberry – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Attorney General
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Emily Thornberry on 2014-06-10.
To ask the Attorney General, with reference to the Answer of 6 May 2014, Official Report, column 8W, on freezing orders, for each of the restraint orders granted since 2010-11, what the length of time was between receipt by the prosecution agency of the freezing request and the granting of the order.
Oliver Heald
Since 2010-11 the Serious Fraud Office has obtained two restraint orders for overseas jurisdictions. The length of time from date of receipt of the requests to the granting of the orders, are shown in the following table;
|
Year |
Time |
|
2010 |
3 days |
|
2011 |
7 days |
The length of time between receipt of freezing requests by the Crown prosecution Service and the granting of the order is shown in the table below. There were two cases (one in 2010/11 and one in 2012/13) which took a significant amount of time to execute as detailed work needed to be done with the requesting country in order to prepare the applications for restraint orders.
|
Year |
Number of overseas restraint orders |
Number of days from the receipt of the external request to the granting of the order |
|
2010/11 |
7 |
Request 1 – 22 Request 2 – 96 Request 3 – 9 Request 4 – 17 Request 5 – 17 Request 6 – 95 Request 7 – 645 |
|
2011/12 |
2 |
Request 1 – 1 Request 2 – 26 |
|
2012/13 |
6 |
Request 1 – 27 Request 2 – 39 Request 3 – 438 Request 4 – 34 Request 5 – 28 Request 6 – 11 |
|
2013/14 |
3 |
Request 1 – 16 Request 2 – 1 Request 3 – 35 |
