PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pyramid Selling: Prosecutions (26 March 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many prosecutions there have been relating to pyramid selling schemes under the (a) Fraud Act 2006 and (b) Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 since 2010.

Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)

Centrally collated data on court proceedings held by the Ministry of Justice do not identify all the specific circumstances surrounding offences which were proceeding against under the Fraud Act 2006 and the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. It is therefore not possible to separately identify offences involving pyramid selling schemes without incurring disproportionate cost.

Answered by:
Dr Phillip Lee (Liberal Democrat)
3 April 2018