Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 May 2023 to Question 183671 on Fraud, where on the Action Fraud website the requested information is available; and how many incidents were reported to Action Fraud by (a) individuals and (b) organisations where fraud was attempted but no losses occurred in the 12 months to 31 March 2023.

The latest fraud and cyber crime statistics are published at: Fraud and cyber crime statistics | Action Fraud. In addition, Action Fraud’s Interactive Dashboard allows users to quickly identify the most commonly reported fraud and cyber crimes, with various filters in place. This is available at: NFIB Dashboard (Public) (arcgis.com) We will consider how to improve the public data as we make improvements to the overall service as part of the upgrade which will be complete by 2024.

The volumes of total fraud victims reported to Action Fraud for the period April 2022 - March 2023 has been copied below. However, a breakdown by losses incurred is not available at present.

The data published on the Action Fraud as set out above do not include attempted frauds, which Action Fraud categorises as ‘information reports’.

The statement on the ‘About the data’ page on the NFIB Fraud and Cyber Crime Dashboard, which says that ‘only fraud and cyber crime offences amounting to a crime under the Home Office Crime Recording rules are included in the data’ is accurate.