Question follow-through · 119882
Fraud
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in cyber-enabled fraud in the last three years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in cyber-enabled fraud in the last three years.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2026
Answer published
Using the latest data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the survey estimates that 42% of fraud was cyber enabled in the year ending March 2023, rising to 48% in the year ending March 2024. However, this is likely to be an underestimate. The sur...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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