Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department are taking to support the police to tackle fraud.
We recognise the devastating emotional and financial harms that victims of fraud can suffer. The 2020 ONS released the Nature of crime: fraud and computer misuse, indicated that 20% of respondents felt loss of confidence or felt vulnerable.
Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector to better protect the public and businesses from fraud, reduce the impact of fraud on victims, and increase the disruption and prosecution of fraudsters and we will publish a fraud strategy in due course, setting out how we will do this.