Question follow-through · 42244
Shops: Money Laundering
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether particular types of retail outlets in high streets and town centres are used for money laundering from the sale of drugs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 28 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of whether particular types of retail outlets in high streets and town centres are used for money laundering from the sale of drugs.
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government recognises that cash intensive businesses such as barber shops and nail bars can be exploited by criminals seeking to launder their criminal cash from serious and organised crime. Addressing cash-based money laundering is one of the strateg...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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