Written Question·Home Office·UIN 119882

Fraud

Tabled: 11 March 2026
Answered: 18 March 2026

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist PartyStrangford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in cyber-enabled fraud in the last three years.

Answer

Dan Jarvis
Using the latest data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales, the survey estimates that 42% of fraud was cyber enabled in the year ending March 2023, rising to 48% in the year ending March 2024. However, this is likely to be an underestimate. The sur...

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