Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which (a) organisations and (b) individuals make up the current membership of the Joint Fraud Taskforce.

The Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) is a joint public and private sector Board, chaired by the Security Minister. Its mission statement is:

To bring together partners from across the public and private sectors to tackle fraud and substantially improve the protections in place for the public and businesses.

The goals of the JFT are to:

• Help prevent the public from falling victim to fraud by working across industry sectors, regulators, the third sector and law enforcement.
• Develop technical innovation and solutions to harden systems and close vulnerabilities that criminals exploit.
• Apply dynamic and meaningful protect messaging designed to induce more cautious behaviour when making financial or data transactions.

The JFT’s remit and structure is built around formulation and delivery of the voluntary industry elements of the Fraud Action Plan, which will be published in full in 2022. This work includes:

• Overseeing the delivery and success of the sector charter programme, (through charter working groups);
• Overseeing work on cross-industry action to tackle online fraud (through the Online Fraud Steering Group);
• Overseeing work by industry, government and the third sector to better support victims (through the Victims Working Group);
• Overseeing work to better align and improve messaging and communications campaigns on fraud (through the Communications Group).

Following its relaunch on 21^st October, the JFT Board is working with industry to develop quantitative and qualitative targets for each working group.

Membership information is available on GOV.UK. The following organisations make up the current membership of the JFT:

• Home Office
• National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)
• City of London Police
• National Trading Standards
• UK Finance
• British Retail Consortium (BRC)
• Cifas
• National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
• OFCOM
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Victims Commissioner
• Citizens Advice
• Victim Support
• FCA
• Law Society of England and Wales
• Association of British Insurers (ABI)
• TechUK
• Communications Crime Strategy Group (CCSG)
• TUFF
• Serious Fraud Office
• DCMS
• HMT

Individual attendance may vary and full lists of attendees for each meeting are published with the minutes of JFT after the meeting has taken place.

The JFT Board will meet at least three times a year, and the second meeting will take place in early 2022.

Previous dates of meetings and attendance information is available on GOV.UK. Prior to 21 October 2021, the Joint Fraud Taskforce last met on 18 November 2020. The meeting was chaired by Mike Haley of Cifas and was attended by representative from the following organisations:

• City of London Police
• National Economic Crime Centre
• National Trading Standards
• Nationwide
• Telefonica
• UK Finance
• BRC
• NCSC
• Home Office