Fraud: Internet
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been convicted of online fraud in the last 12 months.
Answered by Sir Nicholas Dakin
The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for a wide range of offences, including fraud up to and including June 2024 in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal justice statistics - GOV.UK.
However, data held centrally does not include if the fraud offence involved online activity. This information may be held in the court records but to examine individual court records would be of disproportionate costs.
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