Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crime reports Action Fraud have received in each month since September 2021; and of those, what proportion have met the assessment case criteria implemented by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau to be investigated.

The monthly breakdown of fraud offences reported to Action fraud can be found in table A4b here: Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)

The Home Office also collects information on the number of fraud offences that the National Fraud Investigation Bureau (NFIB) refer to police forces for investigation and on the number of fraud outcomes recorded by the police. This data is published annually as part of the ‘Crime Outcomes in England and Wales’ publication. The latest available data for the year ending March 2023 can be found in Section 4, Experimental Statistics: Investigative outcomes assigned to Fraud and Computer Misuse Act (CMA) offences, here: Crime outcomes in England and Wales 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)