Fraud
Commons · Question 73648 · 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 estimate she has made of the annual cost of fraud to the economy; and what assessment she has made of the potential impact of that cost on departmental funding decisions.
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...