Steve McCabe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Steve McCabe on 2014-03-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will review the current requirements for seizing property or cash under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to bring those requirements into line with the new powers of HM Revenue and Customs to seize money from an individual’s bank account without a warrant.

Karen Bradley

The Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Strategy clearly sets out our
plans to attack criminal finances by making it harder to move, hide and use the
proceeds of crime. These include measures to enable assets to be frozen more
quickly and earlier in investigations, reduce the time that courts give
offenders to pay confiscation orders, and make it easier for magistrates to
confiscate cash held in bank accounts.