Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many crimes involving fraud were recorded by Action Fraud but not passed on as part of intelligence packages to police forces for enforcement action in each of the last five reporting years.
The Home Office does not hold data centrally on the number of fraud offences that were recorded by Action Fraud but were not passed to police forces for enforcement action.
This is because fraud offences that are passed to police forces may sometimes have been recorded by Action Fraud in previous years. It is therefore not possible to determine exactly how many of the crimes recorded in a given year were not passed to police forces to take enforcement action.