Home Office written question – answered at on 8 October 2019.
Vincent Cable
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average time it takes for Action Fraud call centre operators to answer calls from the public; and what is Action Fraud's target time is for answering such calls.
Vincent Cable
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of people employed by Action Fraud as (a) call centre operators, (b) investigators and (c) other staff.
Vincent Cable
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the average time taken to investigate cases at Action Fraud; and what steps she is taking to ensure Action Fraud has the resources necessary to investigate such cases.
Vincent Cable
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Health and Social Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of Action Fraud's performance.
Brandon Lewis
The Minister of State, Home Department
It has not proved possible to respond to the Hon Member in the time available before Prorogation.
Yes5 people think so
No4 people think not
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