Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many incidents of (a) fraud and (b) cyber crime were reported to Action Fraud in each of the last five years; and in each of those years what proportion of those incidents resulted in a prosecution.

The Home Office collects data on the number of fraud and computer misuse cases reported to Action Fraud that have been recorded as crimes by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB).

Such data is published by the Office for National Statistics on a quarterly basis and the most recently available statistics for the year ending June 2022 can be found, here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesquarterlydatatables

Statistics on the investigative outcomes of those offences referred to the territorial police forces for investigation are published each year by the Home Office. The most recent publication was Crime outcomes in England and Wales 2021 to 2022 and can be found at this link https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2021-to-2022

The Home Office does not hold information on cases that result in prosecution but the Ministry of Justice publish statistics on court outcomes by crime type including fraud. The latest statistics can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2022.