The Act Schedule 1: The Serious Organised Crime Agency Section 18: Determinations relating to grants under section 17
100.This section expands upon the Secretary of State’s duty to make grants to SOCA under section 17. The Secretary of State is required to issue annual determinations on SOCA grants, in the form of a report which sets out considerations underlying the determination. However, it is open to the Home Secretary to make a determination covering two or more years in order to afford SOCA greater financial stability (subsection (2)). A copy of the report must be sent to SOCA and laid before the House of Commons (subsection (5)). Determinations may be varied at any time, but in each case a further report is necessary. The Secretary of State can also require SOCA to provide him with information to assist him in reaching a determination, and he can require such information within a specified period (subsection (6)).