Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 74805

Credit Cards: Fraud

Tabled: 3 September 2025
Answered: 15 September 2025

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

Conservative — Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent the (a) sale and (b) production of skimming devices used fraudulently steal card details.

Answer

Kate Dearden
The Home Office announced that an expanded fraud strategy will be published later this year, as part of the government’s Plan for Change, with a key focus of the strategy being combatting tech-enabled fraud.