Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many cases of push payment fraud there have been in each of the last five years.

UK Finance publish figures on the number of incidents of Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud for the UK each year. In 2021, UK Finance recorded 195,996 cases of APP, a 27% increase from 2020. In 2020, UK Finance recorded 154,614 incidents of APP fraud (data updated 26/08/2022). Figures for years prior to 2020 are not available as these are not directly comparable with current data due to changes in the manner in which APP losses are identified and reported. Please also note UK Finance figures are for the UK and include personal and non-personal account reports.