Credit Cards: Fraud

(asked on 22nd January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many reported credit card frauds there were in each of the last available three years; and what was the total sum involved.


Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 31st January 2018

The Home Office collects quarterly fraud data, including banking and credit card industry fraud data, from the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB).

These data are published by the ONS on a quarterly basis. The latest data are for year to June 2017 and are available in Table A5 at the link below: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/datasets/crimeinenglandandwalesappendixtables

Published tables for earlier quarters are also available at the above link.

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