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’.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 8 June 2022

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Post-legislative assessment of the Fraud Act 2006

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-3353-6, CP 680

PDF, 337 KB, 28 pages

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

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-3353-6, CP 680

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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