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date	28/02/2022
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 estimate she has made of the proportion of crime committed online.
tabling member constituency	Tatton
tabling member printed	Esther McVey
uin	905745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/02/2022 answer text <p>By volume, most crime is now wholly or partially online, a trend further accelerated by the pandemic.</p><p>The Online Safety Bill, Fraud Action Plan and National Economic Crime Centre are among the key elements of the fight against it.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 28/02/2022 15:33:58 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey

1433539

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
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 estimate she has made of the value of online fraud committed in the UK by perpetrators based in (a) the EU, (b) the United States, (c) member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, (d) Israel, (e) India, (f) Australia and New Zealand, (g) Canada, (h) Mexico, (i) Singapore and (j) other member states of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership besides those already mentioned, in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	126599
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>Fraud emanating from countries abroad affecting UK citizens is a key concern for this government and we are committed to combatting it. The Home Secretary regularly engages with her international counterparts to build collaboration against this and other crime types. International collaboration on fraud includes the work of the City of London Police, which is the national lead force for fraud, partnering with law enforcement and industry to combat fraud from overseas jurisdictions. UK authorities continue to work with their international counterparts on a case-by-case basis to target criminals responsible for defrauding members of the public and businesses.</p><p>We do not currently hold data on online fraud emanating from overseas. This is why we continue to make a concerted effort to strengthen our evidence base and improve information sharing both as set out in the Economic Crime Plan and the 2021 Statement of Progress (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-crime-plan-2019-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-crime-plan-2019-to-2022</a>).</p><p>Alongside this we are developing a new approach to disrupt, deter and drive down the number of fraud incidents, including working with international partners. This approach is now being developed and will commit key partners in the public sector and industry to do more to tackle fraud, focus on key areas to restrict criminals’ opportunities to commit fraud and increase public awareness.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 126600 question first answered 24/02/2022 17:37:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1433540

registered interest
date	21/02/2022
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 estimate she has made of the (a) value of online fraud committed in the UK by perpetrators based overseas and (b) proportion of the total amount of online fraud committed in the UK that was committed by perpetrators based overseas, in 2021.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	126600
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2022 answer text <p>Fraud emanating from countries abroad affecting UK citizens is a key concern for this government and we are committed to combatting it. The Home Secretary regularly engages with her international counterparts to build collaboration against this and other crime types. International collaboration on fraud includes the work of the City of London Police, which is the national lead force for fraud, partnering with law enforcement and industry to combat fraud from overseas jurisdictions. UK authorities continue to work with their international counterparts on a case-by-case basis to target criminals responsible for defrauding members of the public and businesses.</p><p>We do not currently hold data on online fraud emanating from overseas. This is why we continue to make a concerted effort to strengthen our evidence base and improve information sharing both as set out in the Economic Crime Plan and the 2021 Statement of Progress (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-crime-plan-2019-to-2022" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/economic-crime-plan-2019-to-2022</a>).</p><p>Alongside this we are developing a new approach to disrupt, deter and drive down the number of fraud incidents, including working with international partners. This approach is now being developed and will commit key partners in the public sector and industry to do more to tackle fraud, focus on key areas to restrict criminals’ opportunities to commit fraud and increase public awareness.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds grouped question UIN 126599 question first answered 24/02/2022 17:37:07 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1385752

registered interest
date	07/12/2021
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 recent assessment she has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on trends in the (a) number of and (b) number of victims of online scams; and what steps her Department is taking to help protect (i) people and (ii) businesses from cyber crime.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North East
tabling member printed	Colleen Fletcher
uin	88738
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/12/2021 answer text <p>As noted in the response to PQ:130746, the Government remains deeply concerned by the growth in scale and complexity of online scams, especially during COVID-19. That is why, we are actively working with industry, regulators, law enforcement and consumer groups to crack down on these crimes and to protect victims.</p><p>As of March 2020, 53% of fraud incidents estimated by the Crime Survey of England and Wales were thought to be cyber-related. The most recently available quarterly data for the year ending June 2021 of the number of reports of fraud made to Action Fraud that have been recorded as criminal offences by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) have been published by the Office for National Statistics and can currently be found in Table A5 here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables" target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables</a>.</p><p>Tackling cyber crime is a complex problem and, as we made clear in the Beating Crime Plan published earlier this year, we are working across government to deliver improvements to the UK’s cyber resilience and ensure we stay ahead of cyber criminals. We have invested £195 million over the last five years to establish a specialist cyber law enforcement network to disrupt and prosecute cyber criminals and support victims in response and recovery.</p><p>To protect people and businesses from cyber crime we have launched the Cyber Resilience Centres to assist small businesses; the National Economic Crime Victim Care Unit (NECVCU) scheme to ensure that the right support is provided to victims by the right organisation, dependent on their individual need; and the NCSC’s Active Cyber Defence programme to help tackle a significant proportion of the cyber attacks that hit the UK.</p><p>The Government will also publish a new National Cyber Security Strategy later this year.</p> answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds question first answered 13/12/2021 16:02:00 answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds previous answer version 38421 answering member constituency East Hampshire answering member printed Damian Hinds answering member 3969 label Biography information for Damian Hinds
tabling member	4378 label Biography information for Colleen Fletcher