Background
34.The Government published the White Paper One Step Ahead: A 21st Century Strategy to Defeat Organised Crime (CM 6167) in March 2004. The White Paper set out the Government’s three-pronged strategy for tackling organised crime, namely reducing the profit incentive, disrupting the activities of criminal enterprises and increasing the risk to the major players of being caught and convicted. A summary of the responses to the white paper is available on the website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk and the Government's response was published in November 2004(1). Parts 1 and 2 of the Act are intended to give effect to those provisions of the White Paper that require legislation.