The UK risks becoming a “haven for fraudsters”, MPs warned on Friday as they criticised the government’s record on tackling the nation’s dominant form of crime.
A report by the cross-party parliamentary public accounts committee, which scrutinises government spending, said the Home Office had been “sluggish and outmanoeuvred” in its response to the rapid growth of all forms of fraud.
Police morale and public trust had both been undermined by “system failures”, it said, and the UK’s ability to address the international dimension of fraud was threatened by a failure to develop relationships with overseas criminal justice agencies.
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