Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of the number of targeted automated phone scams reported in 2018.

We do not hold this data centrally. Information on recorded fraud levels can be downloaded and found in table A5 of the Office of National Statistics website, at the following address:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables

The particular breakdown of reported, targeted automated phone scams reported in 2018 may be recorded under other fraud headings.