Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of trends in levels of fraud.

Fraud accounts for 46% of reported crime in England and Wales in 2025. Around 1 in 13 adults (3.8 million people) were victims of fraud in 2025. Fraud cost the UK economy at least £14.4 billion for both businesses and individuals in 2023–2024. In March 2026, the Fraud Strategy was launched, which sets out how the government will combat fraud against individuals and businesses over the period 2026 to 2029.