Serious Fraud Office (Hansard, 27 January 2004)

HC Deb 27 January 2004 vol 417 c243W 243W

§ Mr. Llwyd
To ask the Solicitor-General what the overall conviction rate for cases pursued by the Serious Fraud Office was in 2003. [150062]

§ The Solicitor-General
The Serious Fraud Office's (SFO) statistical information is recorded by financial year (5 April to 4 April). Since 5 April 2003, the SFO has convicted 19 out of 29 defendants, a conviction rate of 66 per cent. The conviction rate since the inception of the SFO in April 1988 is 70 per cent. (403 convictions from 575 defendants).