Written Question·Home Office·UIN 72630

Personation

Tabled: 29 August 2025

Answered: 15 September 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the number of people who have faced identity fraud through impersonation.

Answer

Dan Jarvis

Cifas, a not-for-profit fraud prevention organisation, holds records of first and third-party fraud risk, including identity fraud. In the first six months of 2025, Cifas reported that over 118,000 identity fraud cases were reported to their NFD in their ...

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