Fraud

(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the day-to-day impact of fraud on the general public.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 25th April 2022

Reports of fraud offences are made to Action Fraud and are recorded as criminal offences by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB). The Home Office collects data on these reports. This data is published by the Office for National Statistics on a quarterly basis. The latest breakdown of fraud offences is available in table A5 below: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables. Later this year, we will publish a new strategy to address the threat of fraud. This will set out how we will work with industry to remove the vulnerabilities that fraudsters exploit, with intelligence agencies to shut down fraudulent infrastructure, with law enforcement to identify and bring the most harmful offenders to justice, and with all partners to ensure that the public have the advice and support they need.

We encourage the public to continue reporting fraud to Action Fraud, forwarding any suspicious emails to report@phishing.gov.uk and suspicious texts to 7726, free of charge.

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