Written Question·Home Office·UIN 41004

Economic Crime

Tabled: 25 March 2025
Answered: 28 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Liam Byrne

LabourBirmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on the proportion of police staff involved with investigating (a) fraud and (b) other types of economic crime in 2023 and 2024.

Answer

Dame Diana Johnson
A new National Fraud Squad has been established, consisting of a total of c.500 specialist investigators across the NCA, City of London Police and Regional Organised Crime Units. The NFS had c.300 new and existing investigators in post in May 2023 when th...

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