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Economic Crime

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of financial crimes across the UK in the last 12 months.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 26 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 28 Mar 2025
Answer: 2 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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26 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of financial crimes across the UK in the last 12 months.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
Financial crime can encompass a wide range of crime types used to gain funds in an illicit way.Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show there were an estimated 3.86 million incidents of frau...

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