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1721633

registered interest
date	17/07/2024
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, whether her Department plans to take further steps to tackle consumer fraud.
tabling member constituency	York Outer
tabling member printed	Mr Luke Charters
uin	348
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2024 answer text <p>The Government takes the issue of fraud very seriously and is dedicated to protecting the public from this devastating crime.</p><p>We will tackle the criminals responsible for fraud at home and overseas, work with industry to make it much more difficult to commit fraud, and support victims across the UK.</p> answering member constituency Barnsley North answering member printed Dan Jarvis question first answered 23/07/2024 16:13:19 answering member 4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis
tabling member	5199

1717940

registered interest
date	14/05/2024
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 and what proportion of (a) cases of extradition related to fraud and (b) convictions related to fraud have been successfully completed in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	26210
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 24/05/2024 11:08:01 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1695314

registered interest
date	12/03/2024
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, with reference to the press notice entitled UK hosts world leaders for first Global Fraud Summit, published on 11 March 2024, if he will publish the evidential basis on which the statement was made that £3 billion was lost to overseas accounts last year as a result of fraud.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	18087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/03/2024 answer text <p>The £3 billion figure is an estimate of the UK fraud losses that either originated abroad or had an international element.</p><p>This estimate combines data on the fraud losses that was publicly available over the period of Financial Year 22/23 on the Action Fraud dashboard (the latest Action Fraud data can be found here <a href="https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/0334150e430449cf8ac917e347897d46" target="_blank">NFIB Dashboard (Public) (arcgis.com)</a>, with the estimate that over 70% of fraud originated abroad or has an international element, which was published in the Fraud Strategy <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1154660/Fraud_Strategy_2023.pdf" target="_blank">Tackling fraud and rebuilding trust (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 15/03/2024 09:43:28 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1687426

registered interest
date	05/02/2024
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, what steps he has taken to help reduce (a) advance fee fraud and (b) other consumer retail scams.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	13052
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/02/2024 answer text <p>As part of implementation of the Government’s Fraud Strategy ‘Advance fee fraud’ has decreased by 33% since the year ending September 2022 from 546,000 to 367,000 offences (CSEW data). We have introduced a series of sector charters with industry to agree voluntary actions to protect consumers. Last year, the Government published the Online Fraud Charter which seeks to block fraud at source, making reporting fraud easier for users and decreasing the time it takes to remove content and advertisements found to be fraudulent.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 13/02/2024 14:51:37 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

1686428

registered interest
date	31/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department has spent on fraud recovery in each financial year since 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
tabling member printed	Neale Hanvey
uin	12428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/02/2024 answer text <p>The level of information requested is unclear/not held as it is unclear which elements of the department’s spending on fraud, error and debt this request relates to.</p><p> </p><p>Details of current spending allocations for counter-fraud activities can be found at Figure 7 on page 297 of the department’s Annual Report and Accounts published on 6 July 2023 - <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64a576d47a4c230013bba1e7/annual-report-accounts-2022-23-web-ready.pdf" target="_blank">Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 for the year ended 31 March 2023 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 06/02/2024 12:31:50 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4782 label Biography information for Neale Hanvey

1684497

registered interest
date	23/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2024 to Question 9806 on Fraud, for what reason his Department forecasts that fraudulent behaviour will rise by five per cent per year.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	11093
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The 5% forecast assumption is an Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) figure based on a range of evidence, most notably the Home Office statistics that show that fraud has been consistently rising across the economy over recent years.</p><p> </p><p>This is further supported by the recent British Social Attitudes survey - <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/653262db0b5392000da92acd/british-social-attitudes-survey-fraud-error-2016-2022.pdf" target="_blank">British Social Attitudes: Fraud and Error in Welfare Benefits, 2016 to 2022 (publishing.service.gov.uk)</a> which shows that public tolerance of benefit fraud has increased over the last few years.</p><p> </p><p>Further detail of all factors considered can be found at Q98 of the Public Accounts Committee from September 2023 - <a href="https://committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13676/pdf/" target="_blank">committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/13676/pdf/</a></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 30/01/2024 12:12:14 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1682484

registered interest
date	16/01/2024
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Fourth Report of the Public Accounts Committee of 2023–24 on The Department for Work & Pensions Annual Report and Accounts 2022–23, HC 290, published on 16 November 2023, for what reason his Department assumes that fraud will rise by five per cent each year.
tabling member constituency	Wirral South
tabling member printed	Alison McGovern
uin	9806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <p>We do not forecast that fraud will rise by 5% per year. We forecast that fraudulent behaviour (or the propensity to commit fraud) will rise by 5% per year.</p><p><br></p> answering member constituency Blackpool North and Cleveleys answering member printed Paul Maynard question first answered 23/01/2024 14:57:25 answering member 3926 label Biography information for Paul Maynard
tabling member	4083 label Biography information for Alison McGovern

1665458

registered interest
date	17/10/2023
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 crime reports Action Fraud have received in each month since September 2021; and of those, what proportion have met the assessment case criteria implemented by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau to be investigated.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	203010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/10/2023 answer text <p>The monthly breakdown of fraud offences reported to Action fraud can be found in table A4b here: <a href="https://gbr01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ons.gov.uk%2Fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2Fcrimeandjustice%2Fdatasets%2Fcrimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables&amp;data=05%7C01%7CDeborah.Awoyemi%40homeoffice.gov.uk%7C1a63b0582f0e4f3b61cc08dbcfbca7fb%7Cf24d93ecb2914192a08af182245945c2%7C0%7C0%7C638332181393417980%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=8%2BorA6%2BgK4izjOmLECWrvOx%2BmZ4fdih03LkVoF5cKUo%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)</a></p><p>The Home Office also collects information on the number of fraud offences that the National Fraud Investigation Bureau (NFIB) refer to police forces for investigation and on the number of fraud outcomes recorded by the police. This data is published annually as part of the ‘Crime Outcomes in England and Wales’ publication. The latest available data for the year ending March 2023 can be found in Section 4, Experimental Statistics: Investigative outcomes assigned to Fraud and Computer Misuse Act (CMA) offences, here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2022-to-2023" target="_blank">Crime outcomes in England and Wales 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)</a></p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 24/10/2023 11:38:55 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1659425

registered interest
date	07/09/2023
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, what recent discussions she has had with Cabinet colleagues on the impact of fraud on businesses.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh South West
tabling member printed	Joanna Cherry
uin	906386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2023 answer text <p>Discussions with Cabinet peers are held in confidence. However, the Government takes the issue of fraud very seriously and is dedicated to protecting the public and businesses from this devastating crime.</p><p>The 2020 Economic Crime Survey showed that around 1 in 5 businesses in surveyed sectors had been a victim of fraud over a three-year period. The mean annual cost per business of all fraud incidents was around £16,000, and the median cost was £1,000. 37% of businesses that experienced fraud also reported other impacts, including on the wellbeing of their staff.</p><p>The Fraud Strategy, published earlier this year, sets out the Government’s three pillar approach to tackling this crime. We will work with industry, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and with all partners to ensure that people and businesses have the advice and support they need.</p> answering member constituency Tonbridge and Malling answering member printed Tom Tugendhat question first answered 14/09/2023 16:11:07 answering member 4462 label Biography information for Tom Tugendhat
tabling member	4419 label Biography information for Joanna Cherry

1656015

registered interest
date	01/09/2023
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 forensic accountants are employed in each Police Force in England and Wales.
tabling member constituency	Easington
tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
uin	196070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2023 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold information on the number of forensic accountants employed in police forces in England and Wales.</p><p>The Home Office collects and publishes data annually on the number of police officers and staff employed in England and Wales by function in the ‘Police workforce, England and Wales’ statistical bulletin, which can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/police-workforce-england-and-wales</a>.</p><p>These functions are based on the framework set out by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) as part of the Police Objective Analysis (POA) estimates. The POA framework does not include a specific function for forensic accountants.</p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp question first answered 06/09/2023 11:36:37 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris