Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to take steps to provide guidance for (a) web hosting companies, (b) telephone infrastructure companies, (c) the banking industry and (d) other industries potentially prone to fraud on protections against fraud for vulnerable and elderly people.

Tackling fraud requires a unified and co-ordinated response from government, law enforcement and the private sector and we will publish a new strategy to address the threat of fraud.

In October 2021, we launched three Fraud Sector Charters, which are voluntary agreements with the telecommunications, retail banking and accountancy sectors. The charters have delivered innovative actions to counter fraud in these industries including measures to reduce scam texts, measures to help vulnerable victims of fraud and to share data.

The Home Office is also intending to launch tech, insurance and legal sector charters with industry. This will include private and public actions that will drive down fraud in these sectors.