Question follow-through · 127045

Foreign Influence Registration Scheme: Prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of breaches of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme have resulted in prosecutions.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
14 Apr 2026
Target answer date
20 Apr 2026
Answer
20 Apr 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Apr 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many instances of breaches of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme have resulted in prosecutions.

  2. 20 Apr 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Apr 2026

    Answer published

    The FIRS scheme went live on 01 July last year. We will be publishing an annual report setting out, among other things, the number of registrations, the number of information notices issued, the number of persons charged with an offence and the number of ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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