Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many ghost brokers have been prosecuted in each of the last five years.
It is not possible to identify prosecutions involving ghost broking within the information held centrally by the Ministry of Justice. These offences are likely to be classified as fraud by false representation.
This detailed information may be held on the court record but to be able to identify these offenders we would have to access individual court records which would incur disproportionate costs.