PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Fraud: Prosecutions (22 June 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Attorney General, how many fraud prosecutions the Crown Prosecution Service has brought in Crown Courts in England and Wales in each of the last five years; and what the outcomes of those prosecutions were.

Asked by:
Karl Turner (Independent)

Answer

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) maintains a central record of the numbers of defendants and the outcome of prosecution proceedings, divided into twelve Principal Offence Categories, including ‘Fraud and Forgery’. The numbers of defendants prosecuted in Crown Courts under this category for each CPS Area and Casework Divisions are provided in the accompanying attachment along with the outcomes of those prosecutions.


Answered by:
Sir Robert Buckland (Conservative)
27 June 2017

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