PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Action Fraud (1 February 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports of fraud have been passed to Action Fraud in each of the last two years; and how many of those reports have resulted in a prosecution.

Asked by:
Pat McFadden (Labour)

The Home Office publishes information annually on the number of reports by victims to Action Fraud that have been recorded as fraud offences as well as the investigative outcomes of those crimes. The latest published data can be found in the ‘Crime Outcomes in England and Wales’ statistical bulletin (in tables 4.3.1 and 4.3.2):

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2019-to-2020

Data for the previous year can be found (in tables 4.2 and 4.3):

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2019-to-2020

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on the number of prosecutions for fraud as part of their quarterly ‘Criminal Justice System Statistics’ publication. The data provided relate to the number of defendants. The latest published data, along with a time series, can be found here (in tables Q3_2 and Q3_3):

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-system-statistics-quarterly-june-2020

Answered by:
Kit Malthouse (Conservative)
9 February 2021