Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions individuals contacted Action Fraud to report that third parties had unsuccessfully tried to access their bank accounts or obtain their banking details in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22; and how many of those incidents were recorded as crimes in each financial year.

The Home Office collects data on the number of fraud and computer misuse cases reported to Action Fraud that have been recorded as crimes by the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB). Information on the number of reports of fraud that were not subsequently recorded as crimes is not held.

Action Fraud reports of fraud and computer misuse offence are published by the ONS quarterly in the Crime in England and Wales tables, which can be found at this link: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables

Table A5 presents these offences by type of fraud committed.