Information Sharing

Home Office written question – answered am ar 6 Chwefror 2024.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Tracey Crouch Tracey Crouch Ceidwadwyr, Chatham and Aylesford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will introduce legislation to mandate information sharing between (a) payment service providers, (b) technology companies and (c) telecommunications companies.

Photo of Tracey Crouch Tracey Crouch Ceidwadwyr, Chatham and Aylesford

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of a fair and proportional reimbursement framework for bank fraud.

Photo of Thomas Tugendhat Thomas Tugendhat Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

Under current regulations, victims of unauthorised bank fraud are automatically entitled to reimbursement in virtually all cases. This is not the case with victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud – currently ten of the UK’s largest banks are signed up to the voluntary Contingent Reimbursement Model (CRM) Code.

The government have legislated through the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 to require the Payments System Regulator (PSR) to introduce mandatory reimbursement for APP scams within the Faster Payment System, where 98% of APP fraud takes place.

The PSR have confirmed that mandatory reimbursement will come into force in October 2024.

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