Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who have been victims of fraud in the last 12 months.

The latest Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) release in April 2025 estimated that there were 3.4 million victims of fraud in the year ending December 2024 in England and Wales.

Further information for Year Ending December 2024 Edition can be found here (Worksheet A4):

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables