Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2015 to Question 221638, how many reports of fraud have been received by Action Fraud in the 12 month period for which figures are available; and how many victims of crime who reported to Action Fraud have received an update on what action has been taken in that period.

The Home Office only hold data centrally on the number of crimes recorded by Action Fraud. Action Fraud recorded 212,705 fraud offences in the year to September 2014.

The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) advise that in the same period, over 180,000 victims of fraud offences received updates on the progress of the investigation of their crimes. This figure is lower than the total number of
crimes recorded in the same period, because the system of updates was rolled out in a phased way during 2013 and 2014. As a result, not all victims during this period would have received updates.