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Written question asked by Emily Thornberry (Labour) on Monday, 23 January 2023, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 25 January 2023. It was answered by Tom Tugendhat (Conservative) on Tuesday, 31 January 2023 on behalf of the Home Office.

Fraud

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions individuals contacted Action Fraud to report that third parties had unsuccessfully tried to defraud them using denial of service extortion or other hacking scams n (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22; and how many of those incidents were recorded as crimes in each financial year.

Answer

The Home Office collects data on the number of fraud and computer misuse cases reported to Action Fraud that have been recorded as crimes by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB). Information on the number of reports of fraud that were not subsequently recorded as crimes is not held.

Action Fraud reports of fraud and computer misuse offence are published by the ONS quarterly in the Crime in England and Wales tables, which can be found at this link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables

Table A5 presents these offences by type of fraud committed.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
129743
Session
2022-23
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Fraud Extortion Hacking Action Fraud
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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