Action Fraud

(asked on 10th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many case referrals were made by Action Fraud to police forces in each quarter since Action Fraud was established, by police force area.


Answered by
Damian Hinds Portrait
Damian Hinds
Minister of State (Education)
This question was answered on 23rd February 2022

The Home Office collects data on the number of fraud cases reported to Action Fraud that have been recorded as criminal offences by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB).

Such data is published by the Office for National Statistics on a quarterly basis and the most recently available data for the year ending September 2021 can be found, here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesquarterlydatatables

A longer running time series, available back to April 2011, is also available in Table A4 here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=%2fpeoplepopulationandcommunity%2fcrimeandjustice%2fdatasets%2fcrimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables%2fyearendingseptember2021/appendixtablesep21finalv2.xlsx

The Home Office also collects information on the number of fraud offences that the NFIB refer to police forces for investigation and on the number of fraud outcomes, including charges, recorded by the police. This data is published annually as part of the Home Office’s ‘Crime Outcomes in England and Wales’ publication. The latest available data for year ending March 2021 can be found be here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-statistics .

City of London Police also produce an interactive dashboard of their statistics which shows a breakdown of dissemination rates and outcomes at force level. This can be found here: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/data.

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