Written Question·Home Office·UIN 61398
Personation
Tabled: 19 June 2025
Answered: 27 June 2025
Question
Claire Hazelgrove
Labour — Filton and Bradley Stoke
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) take steps to make identity theft a police-recordable crime and (b) make an assessment of the adequacy of support given to victims of identity theft.
Answer
Dame Diana JohnsonThe act of stealing personal information, and using it for criminal means and gains, is already outlawed. This includes through legislation such as the Fraud Act 2006, Computer Misuse Act 1990 and the Data Protection Act 2018.The most effective way of pre...
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