Economic Crime
Commons · Question 73645 · Tabled 1 Sep 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 10 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to increase (a) funding and (b) staffing for public agencies responsible for investigating (i) fraud and (ii) economic crime.
Answer
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 10 Sep 2025
We 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...