Written Question·Home Office·UIN 73645

Economic Crime

Tabled: 1 September 2025
Answered: 10 September 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase (a) funding and (b) staffing for public agencies responsible for investigating (i) fraud and (ii) economic crime.

Answer

Dan Jarvis
We recognise the financial and emotional impacts that fraud, and wider economic crime, can have. The Home Office does not hold a specific figure on the annual cost of fraud to the economy, however, the estimated total cost of fraud to society was £6.8bn i...
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