Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his Department's policy is on recording identify theft as a crime.

The theft of another person’s identity is often a pre-cursor to fraud. However, the use of that identity is not itself a recordable crime. A crime is recorded when a financial gain is made from the use of the person’s identity (i.e. when a fraud has taken place). This approach ensures that crimes are not double counted.