Policy paper

Post-legislative assessment of the Fraud Act 2006

This memorandum provides an updated post legislative assessment of the Fraud Act 2006 for submission to the ‘House of Lords Select Committee on the Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud’.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Post-legislative assessment of the Fraud Act 2006

Post-legislative assessment of the Fraud Act 2006 (print version)

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A post-legislative assessment of the Fraud Act 2006 was previously conducted in 2012. As part of the House of Lords Committee on the Fraud Act 2006 and Digital Fraud, a memorandum has been published in response to its queries to consider again how effective the Fraud Act 2006 is in tackling fraud and in particular, fraud committed digitally.

Published 8 June 2022