Fraud: Internet
(asked on 26th November 2024) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of online fraud in the last 12 months.
This question was answered on 2nd December 2024
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, including fraud up to and including June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK.
However, data held centrally does not include if the fraud offence involved online activity. This information may be held in the court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.