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Written question asked by Nigel Evans (Conservative) on Thursday, 13 November 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 26 November 2008. It was answered by Meg Hillier (Labour) on Wednesday, 26 November 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Passports: Fraud

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of passport fraud in each of the last five years.
Answer

Information on the cost to the public purse of passport fraud in each the last five years is not available. However in publishing on 9 October on identitytheft.org.uk, the 2006-07 estimate of £1.2 billion for the cost of identity fraud to the UK economy, the costs to the Home office were shown as £284.4 million. These relate to the work of its agencies in safeguarding and validating the identities of its customers as well as costs around deterrence, prevention, and investigation of identity fraud. The majority of these costs (£227.8 million) relate to the operating cost of the Identity and Passport Service in detecting and preventing fraudulent passport applications.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
483 c2281W; 237216
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Fraud Passports
Link
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