Question follow-through · 13544

Food: Wholesale Trade

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of crime perpetrated by fraudsters posing as legitimate food wholesalers in the last 12 months.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 11 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 13 Nov 2024
Answer: 19 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of crime perpetrated by fraudsters posing as legitimate food wholesalers in the last 12 months.
13 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) does not hold crime data relating to this question. Fraudsters posing as legitimate food wholesalers are committing theft, which would primarily sit under a policing remit.However, the FSA has published research on the broa...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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