Successive UK governments keep failing on fraud – and the problem is only getting worse
- Written by Nicholas Ryder, Professor of Law, Cardiff University
In the UK alone, fraud is thought to cost the economy £219 billion per year.tete_escape/ShutterstockFraud is now the most common offence in the UK accounting for more than 40% of reported crime. In the year to July 2025, around 4.2 million people reported being defrauded in England and Wales.
Yet that’s probably only a fraction of the...







