Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships: Fraud

(asked on 16th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of fraud or forgery in relation to the registration of (a) births, (b) marriages and (c) deaths have been identified in each of the last five years for which records are available.


Answered by
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Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 22nd March 2021

The Home Office collects information on the number of fraud and forgery offences from the police in England and Wales but cases relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths are not separately identifiable.

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