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993631

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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 assessment he has made of the adequacy of reporting levels for (a) financial and (b) consumer fraud.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff Central
tabling member printed	Jo Stevens
uin	182840
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Police recorded crime and Crime Survey for England and Wales estimates are not broken down by (a) financial and (b) consumer fraud. There is a gap between the levels of police recorded fraud and the estimated number of frauds in the Crime Survey.</p><p>The City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud, are working with businesses to increase the level of reporting to Action Fraud and the new IT system for Action Fraud, which went live earlier this month, will make it easier for businesses and individuals to report incidents of fraud.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 26/10/2018 12:29:41 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4425 label Biography information for Jo Stevens

982930

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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 data the Government collects on the (a) number and (b) nature of unsolved crimes of fraud that have been reported to the National Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting Centre.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	176442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office collects data from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, based at the City of London Police, on the number of recorded fraud offences reported to the National Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting Centre and on how these crimes have been resolved.</p><p>The most recently published data showing volumes of fraud recorded and type of resolutions are for the year ending March 2018 which are available here: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740625/prc-fraud-open-data-march2018-tables.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/740625/prc-fraud-open-data-march2018-tables.ods</a></p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 16/10/2018 13:46:13 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

982931

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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 is taking to improve the rate of crimes reported to the National Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting Centre that are solved.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	176443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Government has invested in a new IT analytics engine for the national fraud and cyber crime reporting centre (formerly Action Fraud) and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB). The victim reporting process has been greatly improved through the implementation of a streamlined, more intuitive online portal for crime reporting.</p><p>The analytics engine within the NFIB has been significantly upgraded. This will lead to more reports being automatically scored, with more, higher quality disseminations to forces, and better identification of vulnerable victims. The system will also be linked live with forces, so data and intelligence can be shared in real time. We expect to see improvements in the quality and number of disseminations to forces and the ability of forces to investigate and feedback on how they have progressed investigations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 16/10/2018 12:33:11 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

947634

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
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 reports to Action Fraud have been dismissed by a computer system before they are read by a member of staff in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	168180
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2018 answer text <p>No reports are dismissed by a computer system, all reports submitted to Action Fraud are processed through an automated triage system that is designed to ensure that resources are targeted at those cases that have the most viable lines of enquiry. An automated process is required due to the large number of cases received (approximately 42,000 per month) to provide an efficient and effective response.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 05/09/2018 15:47:34 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

947643

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
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 reports made to Action Fraud have been reviewed by (a) a computer system and (b) a member of staff in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	168181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/09/2018 answer text <p>No reports are dismissed by a computer system. All reports submitted to Action Fraud are processed through an automated triage system that is designed to ensure that resources are targeted at those cases that have the most viable lines of enquiry. An automated process is required due to the large number of cases received (approximately 42,000 per month) to provide an efficient and effective response.</p><p>Crime reports to Action Fraud are assessed and triaged through the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) data analytics system which identifies links between seemingly unconnected fraud and cyber crime incidents from all over the country. Having received a report, the first phase of the crime assessment is automated using a computer based algorithm which scores the report’s suitability to be investigated against a number of criteria. This triaging ensures a consistent national approach to the assessment of fraud and cyber crime reports and effective targeting of resources. Some of these criteria include the victim’s vulnerability, whether the identity of the offender is known, if there is evidence available to support this (e.g. a confirmed bank account money has been paid to), or the volume of reports made about a specific offender. <br> <br>Reports with the highest viability scoring are then referred for further action by a crime reviewer. The crime reviewers will then undertake further work to identify whether there are sufficient lines of enquiry for the matter to be disseminated to law enforcement. Where opportunities for further action are identified, these crimes are referred to a local police force or other partner agency.</p><p>During the financial year 2017/2018 there were a total 294,984 reports. Of these reports 113,488 were both system and crime reviewer assessed, the remainder (181,496) were assessed solely by the automated system.</p><p>During the financial year 2016/2017 there were a total 280,706 reports. Of these reports 128,564 were both system and crime reviewer assessed, the remainder (152,142) were assessed solely by the automated system.</p><p>During the financial year 2015/2016 there were a total 234,201 reports. Of these reports 117,179 were both system and crime reviewer assessed, the remainder (117,022) were assessed solely by the automated system.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 25/09/2018 11:16:05 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

947646

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
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 is taking to support fraud victims whose cases do not meet Action Fraud's threshold for investigation.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	168182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2018 answer text <p>The Home Office are supporting the rollout of the Action Fraud National ECVCU. The project is a proof of concept being trialled in West Midlands and Greater Manchester, and is built on an early Pan London concept. Fraud victims whose cases do not meet Action Fraud's threshold for investigation in these force areas are given two levels of service, if they are vulnerable they are offered a victim care service over the phone and face to face through local police force delivery.</p><p>All of the victims that don’t appear to be vulnerable are offered a victim contact service, and if the victim is found to require more support they can be referred to victim care or the local force. To date the ECVCU has helped support over 11,000 victims of fraud. There are a further 10 forces wishing to come onto the service.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 07/09/2018 18:40:06 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

902119

registered interest
date	11/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the highest number of previous convictions for fraud was for an individual convicted of a further fraud offence in each of the last three years who was not given a sentence of immediate custody; and what the sentence was for the most such recent offence in each such case.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	143131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The highest number of previous convictions for a person convicted of a further offence in 2014-2016 who was not given a sentence of immediate custody, and what the sentence was for the most such recent offence in each such case, broken down by offence, can be viewed in the table.</p> answering member constituency Penrith and The Border answering member printed Rory Stewart grouped question UIN 143128 143129 143130 143132 143133 143134 question first answered 21/05/2018 16:09:05 answering member 4137 label Biography information for Rory Stewart attachment 1 file name Copy of PQs 143128 - 143134 Response Table.xlsx title Table
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

846206

registered interest
date	21/02/2018
answering body	Attorney General
answering dept id	88
answering dept short name	Attorney General
answering dept sort name	Attorney General
hansard heading	Fraud
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Attorney General, whether any Shawcross exercises have been conducted into (a) concluded and (b) extant Serious Fraud Office cases in each of the past six years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Hall Green
tabling member printed	Mr Roger Godsiff
uin	128889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>It is my department’s usual policy not to comment on any live cases. In the six years up until the end of 2017, there had been no Shawcross exercises in relation to any concluded SFO cases.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Kenilworth and Southam answering member printed Jeremy Wright question first answered 06/03/2018 14:43:12 answering member 1560 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Wright
tabling member	304 label Biography information for Mr Roger Godsiff