Question follow-through · 11532

Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of fraud in each of the last five years.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 28 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 30 Oct 2024
Answer: 5 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in the level of fraud in each of the last five years.
30 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Nov 2024
Answer published
No. of estimated fraud incidents against individualsYear Ending June202020212022202320244,332,0005,035,0003,819,0003,335,0003,560,000The ONS’ Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW) has been used to assess trends in the level of estimated fraud agains...

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