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<p>The Home Office collects data on the number of fraud cases reported to Action Fraud
that have been recorded as criminal offences by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau
(NFIB).</p><p>Such data is published by the Office for National Statistics on a quarterly
basis and the most recently available data for the year ending September 2021 can
be found, here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesquarterlydatatables"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesquarterlydatatables</a></p><p>A
longer running time series, available back to April 2011, is also available in Table
A4 here: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2fcrimeandjustice%2fdatasets%2fcrimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables%2fyearendingseptember2021/appendixtablesep21finalv2.xlsx"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2fcrimeandjustice%2fdatasets%2fcrimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables%2fyearendingseptember2021/appendixtablesep21finalv2.xlsx</a></p><p>The
Home Office also collects information on the number of fraud offences that the NFIB
refer to police forces for investigation and on the number of fraud outcomes, including
charges, recorded by the police. This data is published annually as part of the Home
Office’s ‘Crime Outcomes in England and Wales’ publication. The latest available data
for year ending March 2021 can be found be here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics</a>
.</p><p>City of London Police also produce an interactive dashboard of their statistics
which shows a breakdown of dissemination rates and outcomes at force level. This can
be found here: <a href="https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/data" target="_blank">https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/data</a>.</p><p>
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