Question follow-through · 108939
Private Life: Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of Dating Scam Fraud were reported in 2025; and what the financial loss was.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 3 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of Dating Scam Fraud were reported in 2025; and what the financial loss was.
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Home Office does not collect information on Dating Scam Fraud. City of London Police are the national lead force for fraud and operate the Report Fraud (formerly Action Fraud) reporting service which collects data on Dating Scam Fraud. The below data ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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