Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the national fraud indicator statistics for 2013 will be published.

The last Annual Fraud Indicator was produced by the National Fraud Authority and was published on 6 June 2013. There are no plans to publish further fraud statistics in this way. When the closure of the National Fraud Authority was announced on 2 December 2013, Official Report, column 36WS, my Rt. Hon. Friend, the Home Secretary made it clear that, "while the National Fraud Authority has been successful in raising awareness of fraud and improving co-ordination, the focus should now be on cutting economic crime". The National Crime Agency is now responsible for producing the single picture of all the threats from serious and organised crime, including economic crime and fraud.