HC Deb 25 April 2002 vol 384 c439W
Mr. Carmichael

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many firms of solicitors in(a) Scotland and (b) England and Wales reported matters to NCIS relating to money laundering in (i) 2000 and (ii) 2001. [51971]

Mr. Bob Ainsworth

From the data currently held relating to suspicious transaction reports made to the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS), it is not possible to differentiate between those made by solicitors firms in Scotland and those in England and Wales. However, the total number of reports received from solicitors in the United Kingdom as a whole was 164 in 2000 and 176 in 2001.