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<p>The Home Office does not hold the information requested.</p><p>The Home Office
runs an annual Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) which asks business premises
in different sectors about their experience of various crime types, including fraud,
in the latest year.</p><p>In order to keep the length of the survey, and hence the
burden on respondents, to a minimum, businesses are only asked about the cost of the
latest incident of each crime type experienced in the year. Therefore, it is not possible
to provide an aggregate cost of fraud or overall crime to businesses in the retail
sector.</p>
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