Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 13544

Food: Wholesale Trade

Tabled: 11 November 2024
Answered: 19 November 2024

Question

Alex Mayer

LabourDunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of crime perpetrated by fraudsters posing as legitimate food wholesalers in the last 12 months.

Answer

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) does not hold crime data relating to this question. Fraudsters posing as legitimate food wholesalers are committing theft, which would primarily sit under a policing remit.However, the FSA has published research on the broa...

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