Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of cybercrimes reported to Action Fraud have been referred to regional police forces for investigation in each year since 2009.

Action Fraud is the national reporting point for fraud, cyber-enabled financial crime and Computer Misuse Act (CMA) offences, and is operated by the City of London Police, the national lead force for fraud.Action Fraud only assumed full responsibility for recording fraud and offences under the CMA in 2013/14. The Home Office does not hold data for the breakdown of disseminations from the City of London Police to local police forces by the factors involved in the crime, such as whether it involved a cyber element. In 2013/14 City of London Police disseminated around 40,000 crimes to police forces for consideration for investigation.