Member

The noble Lord, Lord Vaux of Harrowden, mentioned the fraud charter. I was pleased to launch the fraud charter for telecoms fraud at BT Tower in November. That covers 50 really strong actions which the telecom industry will implement to tackle fraud in the sector, including developing AI models to detect and prevent fraud, building a new call-tracing system to track down fraudulent communications and upgrading the UK’s networks. I am intending, with that charter, to quarterly monitor the performance of the telecom companies, as Minister responsible for anti-fraud measures in the Government at the request of the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister.