Member

On the issue of the general concerns about wider criminality that were raised, trading standards, the police and HMRC already work closely together. They routinely share intelligence on illicit activity and organised crime through established multi-agency databases, regional tasking groups and intelligence networks. All local trading standards services across the UK use a single intelligence database. This is shared with HMRC, and we understand it will be shortly uploaded to the police national database. That will bring further efficiencies and effectiveness to information exchange.