Question follow-through · 348

Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to take further steps to tackle consumer fraud.

answeredHome Office

About this written question

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
17 Jul 2024
Target answer date
22 Jul 2024
Answer
23 Jul 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 17 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to take further steps to tackle consumer fraud.

  2. 22 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Jul 2024

    Answer published

    The Government takes the issue of fraud very seriously and is dedicated to protecting the public from this devastating crime.We will tackle the criminals responsible for fraud at home and overseas, work with industry to make it much more difficult to comm...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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