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	registered interest
	date	28/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes involving fraud were recorded by Action Fraud but not passed on as part of intelligence packages to police forces for enforcement action in each of the last five reporting years.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	216410
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of fraud offences that were recorded by Action Fraud but were not passed to police forces for enforcement action. <br><br>This is because fraud offences that are passed to police forces may sometimes have been recorded by Action Fraud in previous years. It is therefore not possible to determine exactly how many of the crimes recorded in a given year were not passed to police forces to take enforcement action.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 03/12/2014 15:15:05 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

156164

	registered interest
	date	18/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make it her policy to collate statistics relating to the total number of crimes involving online fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	215099
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2014 answer text <p>Action Fraud is the UK’s national reporting point for fraud and financially-motivated cyber crime. The Office for National Statistics publishes quarterly data on the number of fraud offences recorded by Action Fraud. This <br>includes a breakdown by the type of fraud, some of which have a clear online element. <br><br>Action Fraud are looking at developing ways to better identify the subset of fraud offences that involve an online element. However, given the complex nature of some fraud cases this is difficult.<br><br>The Office for National Statistics are also working to improve the measurement of fraud and cyber crime in the crime survey for England and Wales.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 24/11/2014 15:15:28 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

155730

	registered interest
	date	17/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Action Fraud
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of Action Fraud in referring reports of fraud and internet crime to the police.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	214590
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2014 answer text <p>Action Fraud is the national reporting point for fraud and financially-motivated cyber crime. It takes reports of crimes from members of the public and businesses online or via its dedicated helpline. These reports are then analysed by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which looks for links between separate victims of the same scams, and matches information in Action Fraud reports with other data it holds. The NFIB then prepares intelligence packages and sends these to the police force best placed to consider enforcement action. It also carries out work to disrupt the enablers of this criminality, such as having websites used by criminals taken down.</p><p>Both Action Fraud and the NFIB are part of the City of London Police, which is the national lead force for fraud. The Government brought Action Fraud into the City of London Police in April 2014 to strengthen the end-to-end process for reporting and analysis of reports of fraud. In 2013/14, there were 40,000 intelligence packages disseminated to police forces for enforcement action. We expect this number to increase this year and are working with the City of London Police, and their partners to deliver further improvements.</p><p>We continue to work with the City of London Police to ensure as many crimes as possible are sent to police forces, and that victims of crime are kept up-to-date with the progress of their report.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 20/11/2014 15:17:31 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke

114885

	registered interest
	date	05/11/2014
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Cybercrime
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to tackle online fraud.
	tabling member constituency	Dover
	tabling member printed	Charlie Elphicke
	uin	213498
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/11/2014 answer text <p>The Cyber Security Strategy published in 2011 provides a strategic response for the UK on tackling cyber threats including online fraud. We have invested £860 million over five years through National Cyber Security Programme (NCSP). <br><br>Approximately 10% of this has been spent on building law enforcement capabilities to respond to cyber crime. This includes the establishment of the National Cyber Crime Unit in the National Crime Agency (NCA), and cyber teams within each of the Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs) across England and Wales. We are also bolstering the law enforcement response through the creation of bespoke fraud units in each of the ROCUs, delivered with extra Home Office funding over the past two years. <br><br>We have also brought Action Fraud, the national reporting point for fraud and financially-motivated cyber crime, into the City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud. This ensures that a single organisation is responsible for the collection and analysis of reports on these offences, and sending intelligence packages to forces for investigation. In 2013/14 City of London Police disseminated around 40,000 crimes to police forces for investigation and we are working with the City of London Police to raise this further.<br><br>We are also working closely with law enforcement, industry and third sector partners to support individuals and businesses to be better protected. This includes national and local level action to increase their awareness of the risks and adopting safe online behaviours. The Cyber Streetwise awareness campaign, funded by the NCSP, helps individuals and businesses understand how to stay safe online as does the Get Safe Online week held in October this year. The second phase of the campaign, including a refreshed website and online materials, launched last month. Action Fraud also circulates real-time information on the latest fraud threats via its website, social media channels and though police forces and businesses. The Government’s Cyber Information Sharing Partnership, within CERT-UK, is also enabling industry to share information on online threats including fraud, helping to reduce their vulnerability and the impact of online fraud on UK businesses.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Staffordshire Moorlands answering member printed Karen Bradley question first answered 11/11/2014 16:01:11 answering member 4110 label Biography information for Dame Karen Bradley
	tabling member	3971 label Biography information for Charlie Elphicke