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’. The memorandum identified that the nature of fraud cases makes them difficult to prove and the Fraud Act 2006 was intended to give law enforcement the tools they required to tackle it effectively. The responses obtained in the review supported the view that 15 years on the Fraud Act 2006 continues to deliver on its objectives and is still regarded as an incredibly useful piece of legislation.

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