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Written question asked by Tulip Siddiq (Labour) on Wednesday, 4 May 2016, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 9 May 2016. It was answered by John Hayes (Conservative) on Thursday, 12 May 2016 on behalf of the Home Office.

National Crime Agency: Databases

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many individuals working for which organisations have received clearance to directly access the database of Suspicious Activity Reports in each year since 2009-10.

Answer

The end user organisations (police forces, multi agency teams and other agencies) that have ‘direct’ access to suspicious activity reports (SARs) are listed in the SARs Annual Reports, which are available on the NCA website. They are summarised in the table below.

Year

Number of end users organisations that have ‘direct’ access to SARs

2009

78

2010

78

2011

78

2012

77

2013

69

2014

69

2015

71

All individuals outside of the NCA who have ‘direct’ access to SARs are accredited by the NCA Proceeds of Crime Centre as being Financial Investigators, Financial Intelligence Officers or Financial Intelligence Administrators in line with the end user agreements in place with each organisation. Not all those individuals that have accreditation have ‘direct’ access to SARs. It is not possible, without further significant analysis, to determine the number of individuals who over time have had such access to the SARs System.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
36406
Session
2015-16
Transferred
Yes
Subjects
Databases National Crime Agency
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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