Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of fraud-related crime rates in the North East.

The Home Office holds data on incidents of fraud reported to Action Fraud by Police Force Area (PFA), which is published each quarter by the ONS and is available at the following link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/policeforceareadatatables.