Written Question·Home Office·UIN 73648
Fraud
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 estimate she has made of the annual cost of fraud to the economy; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of that cost on departmental funding decisions.
Answer
Dan JarvisWe 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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