Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of scam telephone calls using number spoofing were reported in each of the last five years.

The Home Office does not hold any data on the number of scam telephone calls using number spoofing.

Ofcom recently published their experiences of suspicious calls, texts and app messages survey, conducted on 31^st January and 1^st February 2024 (2,202 UK adult respondents). Mobile and landline users were asked if they had ever received a call that looked like it was from a genuine source but then became suspicious that it was not genuine. 35% reported having received a call on their landline and 50% reported having received a call on their mobile of this nature.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0025/281158/data-tables-2024.xlsx

NB: These figures cannot be combined as some users may have received both suspicious call on their mobile and landline and do not provide answers on the number of spoofing calls in the last five years.