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Credit Cards: Fraud

Asked by Mr Andrew SnowdenConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 15 September 2025UIN 74805

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help prevent the (a) sale and (b) production of skimming devices used fraudulently steal card details.

Answered by Kate Dearden

The Home Office announced that an expanded fraud strategy will be published later this year, as part of the government’s Plan for Change, with a key focus of the strategy being combatting tech-enabled fraud.

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