Written Question·Home Office·UIN 41360

Proceeds of Crime

Tabled: 25 March 2025

Answered: 1 April 2025

Named Day

Question

Calum Miller

Liberal Democrat — Bicester and Woodstock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the 2002 Proceeds of Crime Act in recovering criminal profits made from high-profile theft.

Answer

Dan Jarvis

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) is the primary framework for recovering the proceeds of crime. POCA is crime agnostic and can be applied for any crime type where the criminal has benefited from crime. If a defendant is convicted of a criminal offenc...

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