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Economic Crime

Commons · Question 41424 · Tabled 26 Mar 2025 · Home Office · Official record

Answered 2 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of financial crimes across the UK in the last 12 months.

Answer

Answered by Dan Jarvis, 2 Apr 2025

Financial crime can encompass a wide range of crime types used to gain funds in an illicit way.Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show there were an estimated 3.86 million incidents of frau...