Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how regularly the Joint Fraud Taskforce is intended to meet; and on what dates the Taskforce has met since it was re-launched by her Department on 28 October 2021.
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:
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:
Following its relaunch on 21st 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:
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: