Crime: Computers

(asked on 24th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences were recorded under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 as (a) unauthorised access with intent to commit or facilitate commission of further offences, (b) unauthorised acts with intent to impair, or with recklessness as to impairing, operation of computer, etc., (c) unauthorised access to computer material and (d) making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in offence under sections 1 or 3, as set out in section 3A of that Act, in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 27th January 2022

The Home Office collects data on the number of reports of fraud and Computer Misuse Act (CMA) offences made to Action Fraud that have been recorded as criminal offences by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB).

This data is published as official statistics by the Office for National Statistics on a quarterly basis. A breakdown of fraud and CMA offences is available from June 2015 to June 2021 in table A5 below:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables.

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