Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many offences were recorded under the Fraud Act 2006 as (a) dishonestly making a false representation to make a gain for oneself or another or to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk and (b) dishonestly failing to disclose information to make a gain for oneself or another or to cause loss to another or to expose another to a risk, in each of the last five years.

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.