Fraud
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department collects on romance fraud.
Answered by Dan Jarvis
The Home Office does not collect information on romance fraud. The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which sits within City of London Police, collects data on Dating Scam Fraud. This is collected from the reports made to Action Fraud that amounted to a crime under the Home Office crime recording rules.
The table below summarises the number of dating scams recorded by NFIB on 1D dating fraud offences.
| 2014/15 | 2019/20 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 |
Dating scam (NFIB1D) | 2,735 | 5,541 | 8,388 | 9,296 |
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